We all do it: throw ourselves into one project in order to avoid our higher goals. It’s quite common for someone to get married so that marriage can be their project instead of…their career, fixing things with their family, their own personal work and healing, etc.
You spend your date nights doing things like popping by gallery openings, making appearances at galas, and generally being a couple about town in high society. They aren’t spent one on one.
Several divorces usually mean several homes. And it’s not just like you hop from one house to another—there are the temporary places you stay while you’re separated. Those with lots of divorces behind them don’t feel as attached to their homes as those who’ve been in one marriage for a decade.
It’s very rare that a marriage goes from perfect to failing overnight. Those stories in which a woman finds out her husband is a secret polygamist or laundering money are few and far between—that’s why they make for great true crime show episodes. But in real life, marriages end because one type of argument (that […]
The entire concept of cold feet is dangerous because it normalizes feeling terrified before your wedding. You really shouldn’t feel terrified about marrying the person you’re marrying. You might feel some anxiety around the fact that you love them so much, and marrying them only bonds you more, which would make losing them even harder […]