"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
What I said was my way of trying to get her to notice my contribution to our marriage. As a father, I often feel like I'm really breaking the mold because I do pitch in around the house.
The truth we must realize is no one marries the “right” person. There is no such thing as the “right” person in reality. This is only an illusion fed to us by pop songs and Hollywood love stories.