Tag: marriage

"On your wedding day, I felt so torn... I knew I couldn’t stop you from beginning your own journey. I let you go, and I thought of the people who told me not to blink. And you drove away."

Jon married a girl I grew up with. In the middle of the night two years later, Jon called me because he had just found emails that made it clear to him that his wife was cheating on him. Soon after, she left and never came back.

And please- Don’t ever think that you will change the heart of a man that is not these things. You can’t. You won’t.

Recently, however, I decided that I don’t want to wait until marriage...

"I was jolted awake to my disappointment. The side of the bed to my left was empty. In fact it was untouched. That side of the bed was still tidily made, and that told me two things. One, I really had slept like a rock. And two, my husband had not come to bed at all last night. I wasn’t surprised one bit."

"My husband plain and simply doesn’t need me as much as my kids do... But at the end of the day, he deserves so much more than my leftovers."

The cost of depression to our family was too high. The risk of permanent damage to myself, our marriage, and our precious kids’ hearts was real. I was too weak to reach out for help, so he took authority and insisted on change.

You just start to get to know someone when you get pass the first couple of bumpy years. Even a decade down the road you don’t know them completely.