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So what changed? Either you did or he did or you both did.


To oversimplify, I grew up, he didn't.

To be more objective, I saw us as a perfect pair and that I could keep him balanced...ya, ya, co-dependent.

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So she's been wondering herself -- is she at 45 the person she was at 23 when we started going together?


This is valid. Some people are able to change and be themselves within a long term marriage and some aren't. In the Ms I see that last, the people change exponentially. The M is not a question, it is a given and the changes are welcomed and accepted...you know the whole 2 or 3 really long-term successful marriages I know of?