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Did we all get married for the wrong reason?

briarmommy's picture

I've been thinking about it and I think we all may have gotten married for the wrong reason. We all got married for Love right? This irrational love that made us all belive that everything else would work out. That his kids would change because us and our spouse would be so insync and love eachother so much that they would see it and be happy and suddenly normal. That our spouses disney parenting would stop when they saw how normal and right we were about parenting because our spouses would love us and want to support us. Now don't get me wrong Love is important, and I believe you should love the person you marry but do we overlook the other important things that you need to make a marriage work because of it. Would we all be happier if we had married someone we loved a little less but who respected up and honored our opinions and wanted to make a life with us that was equal and cherished. I think we all got caught up in this love idea and forgot about all the other things. I love my husband so much it hurts sometimes but does that mean we are meant to be married? Does that mean that the love we share counterbalences all the insensitive moranic things he does? I am not saying I am going to leave my husband I'm just saying maybe I didn't make the most sound decision in marrying him. I just was thinking about this earlier and was interested to see what all of you think about this, and why did you get married?

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queen-B's picture

I didn't marry for love the first time. I figured that storybook love was for people other than me (pretty, dependent, willing to lose themselves for their love). My ex is a kind, thoughtful, intelligent man...no wait, boy. He was just never going to grow up, and I wasn't willing to raise a man-child who wouldn't work and had no desire to support himself in any way. Believe me, when I married him I thought I was being way more practical, and my marriage would last way bett than those based on "love.". But here I am, a divorcee who is now living with a man a do love (and, every other weekend, living with his kids) :?

I don't know if we can ever truly know...

briarmommy's picture

Thank you for your response I really wanted to see if it made a difference so its nice to hear about it from both points of view.

alwaysanxious's picture

Well, I've not pushed to get married but stay for love. I really like this post a lot. Why does the physical and emotional response we have to another person override the logic of being with that person!!!

Why do I stay, for some reason I keep feeling like nothing has been so bad to end it. And when its just us, we actually do well. Just silly normal annoyances, but nothing like when skids are here.

briarmommy's picture

Thats it, the love overrides everything and in some ways thats great. But I wonder if we are giving up to much of ourselves for our significant others and there kids.