marriage
Marriage is not so much a word as it is a sentence–a life sentence.
A Story of a Small Town Girl in Kansas
I am an assembly mechanic at a small aircraft machine shop. I've never really been a girly girl and I've worked in a male dominated profession my entire life. I got married young, very young; I was only 18. I would like to give a brief account of my life before Kyle (my first ex husband; yes, I have two). I was raised mostly by a step mother who did not care much about me and my grandmother on my father's side. My father is an alcoholic and my mother was addicted to Meth for nine years. After the age of 5, I only saw her once or twice before I was 14 or 15. (Excuse my lack of exact ages. I don't have many memories of being a child.) So in short, when I met Kyle at age 16, I was starving for love.
By Alondra Atkinson8 years ago in Humans
Being Married in My Early 20s
I was just 18 years old when I met my one day husband, Roger. He was 26. I know the age difference seems big but it really wasn’t. He says still to this day that he knew he wanted me from the moment we were introduced. And how did I feel about him when we first met? Well my first words to him were “You smell good.” Yea. Not my finest moment.
By Taylor Searcy Holland8 years ago in Humans
Finally Leaving That Toxic Man in Your Life
I have been with this man for five years. We've been married for all most two and have a two and a half year old baby boy. Two weeks ago, I finally left. We look like the happy American family. He's a Marine, I'm an artist and entrepreneur. We seem like we have it all together and everything is running smoothly. I worked really hard to make it look that way.
By Darra Bryant8 years ago in Humans
What Is Love Anyway?
I have been with my husband for 18 years. Married 14. We have four children together and yet we don't live under the same roof. Why, might you ask, do we not live under the same roof??? Well that's easy, because he likes to abuse his prescription pills and lies about anything and everything. And before you go being a judgemental meanie head, there's issues that lead to this point. His family is all kinds of jacked up. I will save you all from that and just say that it has caused him to develope PTSD on top of being bipolar with severe depression. Now to add to all of that, while his mother was pregnant with him, he had an in utero stroke which caused him to develop lesions on his frontal lobes of his brain.
By Betty Moreno8 years ago in Humans
Married to an Addict
My husband has broken his sobriety. I'm in a relationship where assumptions of cheating, lying, being delusional, belittling, being crazy, and only God knows what else are placed upon me. My past is used against me. My words are twisted and flipped against me to justify his actions. I constantly cry of loneliness because he's never home. It started with middle of the night sneak outs after I'd fall asleep. Now he just lies and says he'll be right back, which turns into hours. Lately it has turned to overnight, and some overnights have turned into mid-day. I have had to hide my car keys because he'll take off in my car after I fall asleep, or he'll sneak my car keys off the key hook. Now it's to the point to where in order to avoid arguing with him, I just give him the damn keys. However, doing so leaves me home with no car to go anywhere, sometimes he even takes my house keys; locking me inside our gated property.
By Deborah Portillo8 years ago in Humans
Going to the Chapel...Or Something Like That: Part One
In August, I’m marrying my best friend. Yeah, yeah...blah, blah. Everyone says that. For me and most people, it’s true. I mean...I really believe most people go into marriage with careful consideration. You’d have to be nuts not too! My fiancé and I are both older, we’re both 37, have never been married nor have any children together or from previous relationships. We were 33 when we started dating, but we’ve been friends since we were 20.
By Regina Kypriandes8 years ago in Humans
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
