Stopped by a liquor store today to get some booze. I don't often drink and find that alcohol in and of itself is gross. I like "girly" drinks if they're made so I can't taste the alcohol.
Anyway, I was talking to the clerk about how I was just out of a long relationship and wanted to do a little drinking with "the girls", and asked what she'd recommend. She pointed me in the direction of some mango pineapple flavored vodka and then told me the story of how her husband kept bringing up his ex-fiance very frequently and in the end he left her to go back to said ex-fiance.
I'm starting to feel like there are no stories of people working out relationships and going from crisis to "we're stable now and it was so worth it". All I hear are stories of cheating, lying, putting people's own feelings and the desires of the moment first.
It makes me sad.
For those of us who do reconcile, most of us don't come back to sites like these to recall the hardest or worst times of our lives. And it's not easy to revisit so many things that remind me of it.
My point is that you are hardly getting a representative sampling. I DO know several happily married couples and some semi happy couples.
Mind you, a lot o individuals are not very happy people, so I am not sure how much of it is relationships or marriages, or just how our society can be a bit depressive or negatively programmed.
No, everything is not perfect in my life OR my marriage, But yes, making it is worth it.
M: 57 H: 60 M: 35 yrs S30,D28,D19 H off to Alaska 2006 Recon 7/07- 8/08 *2016* X = "ALASKA 2.0" GROUND HOG DAY I File D 10/16 OW DIV 2/26/2018 X marries OW 5/2016
