Sep 26, 2005

married/engaged folks may not read this

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Behold, the most depressing article I've ever read in my life.

Please, someone put a bullet in the back of my head now. At least that way I'll die single.

royalbacon said...

FINALLY read this article, against your demands. Thanks for giving me JUST that right amount of push to make sure I read it.

Very good article. Depressing, but not overly so. Eye-opening, but not completely surprising.

Not that I'm prepared for any of it myself -- I've still got 'newlywed' taped to my forehead and will have it there for at least another 1.8 years or so -- but I'd like to think my relationship with my wife will be different; "We'll rise above all that petty shit." I guess that's pretty obvious, or else we wouldn't have gotten married in the first place, right?

I lived through my parent's divorce at a fairly old age (22), and it hit me like a ton of bricks. But now they're both remarried and they seem happier than they were before. Somehow I know I've learned from watching them, and I know that my marriage will be different. But I've always been on the 'blissfully naive' side of life.

And, god do I love it over here.