marriage
Marriage is not so much a word as it is a sentence–a life sentence.
Engaged in College With Some Doubt
It was supposed to be a normal day with a normal date at the beach in May. I had slept in (the night before I had volunteered to help at my church’s lock-in for the youth group so I hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep until 7 a.m. that morning). Little did I know that my life was about to change. That was the day I got engaged to my boyfriend of four and a half years. I was so excited! The first people I told were my sorority sisters (because in those days I was a college cliche). Congratulations poured in from friends and family on Facebook. About two hours later, we arrived at my parent’s house. My mom and grandma hugged me and congratulated me. My dad said “I’ll congratulate you on your 20th anniversary.” Things were great. Then, a couple weeks later, I began to realize that things were beginning to sour around me.
By Odalys Bailey8 years ago in Humans
Relationship Advice From My Uber Driver
I know this is going to come as a shock to many of you, but dating as a millennial is next to impossible. “There’s plenty of fish in the sea,” they say. Except what “they” don’t know is that the sea is actually full of fuck boys running from commitment, or good guys who have already found the one they are ready to settle down with. And if you happen to stumble upon a guy you think you might want to get to know, sooner or later you find out they are one or all of the following: too clingy, emotionally unavailable (and let me tell you, I’ve had my fair share, so I know the sea is full of them), too immature for a relationship right now, or he needs to find himself and is leaving to go travel for five months. So, after we eliminate all of those guys, what's left?
By Jennifer Proudfoot8 years ago in Humans
What Marriage Taught Me
I went through a lot in my last marriage and, as a result, I learned a lot. One thing I learned was that marriage is not the end all, be all of relationships. If you treat it that way, once you get married you are (for lack of a better word) screwed. You treated marriage as “The End, Happily Ever After” and now you realize life still goes on. You’ve signed a binding legal contract tying you to this person for the foreseeable future and you don’t know what to do. All the stuff y’all dealt with before marriage, you still have to deal with now. The only difference is you can’t simply tell him to pack his stuff and leave and be done with him for good.
By Brittney White8 years ago in Humans
5 Myths About the Other Woman
Discovering that your husband has cheated can be one of the most devastating moments in your life. Finding out that you have been basically living a lie can come as an overwhelming shock. Between deciphering the truth from the lies, and seeing all the signs that you missed, you feel like nothing short of a fool. Not to mention you feel compared to this other woman, who in your mind, has almost develops super powers. This is where you need to gain some clarity and insight to see her for who she truly is.
By Kimberly Adams8 years ago in Humans
A Wedding Speech to Claudia & Richard
Richard and Claudia are a couple I met back in July in New York. They were married in a civil service a year or so ago. But both families felt left out of something very special. So they decided to have a wedding where everyone can attend. I was invited to come since the best man is his own brother and I have been with his brother for five years.
By Heather Wilkins8 years ago in Humans
How We Make It Work
I'm not going to lie, it has been hard at times.We feel like we are an oddity sometimes because both of us were virgins before meeting each other and we had not even dated anyone else before. We had really only been friends for about 2 weeks when we started dating. S and I worked together and the first year I didn't really even like him because he and his friends were the good employees that knew how to do everything fast and without help. I was 16 and it was my first job. I wasn't as fast as some of the other people, and I wasn't the pretty one either.
By Keri Danger8 years ago in Humans
Why I Gave My Cheating Husband a Second Chance
Something had been niggling at me for a while and it all came to a dramatic conclusion on Wednesday night. About a month before he had gotten himself a new phone, he had never really been that interested in technology but he seemed to quite like his new Samsung. He had started playing a game online with his brother and it seemed to be occupying him a lot. He would go upstairs to call him as they played the game online, he told me the game froze when they tried to use the game to talk.
By No One’s Daughter8 years ago in Humans
The Impossible Can Be Done
It was a Monday night when I found out. October 16th, to be exact. I remember so clearly what we were doing, what we had been talking about, what we had been eating—before my world collapsed around me. I remember reading the texts between them. I could feel the fault lines of my heart rip open as I read his message of "I love you" to someone else. My heart literally shattered as I stared at him through the tears that blinded me. My world had irrevocably changed in that moment.
By Eliza Bennett8 years ago in Humans
10 Reasons to Consider Eloping. Top Story - January 2018.
If you were one of those little girls who dreamed about her wedding, in your head it was probably something similar to this: large white dress, horse-drawn carriage, Mr. Right waiting for you at the end of an aisle, your friends and family surrounding you and gushing about how perfect everything is. You may have never understood why anyone would run off and elope.
By No One’s Daughter8 years ago in Humans
