“They don’t have to spend every paycheck on you, but they should spend their free time with you. They don’t have to bring you flowers every day, but they do have to encourage you to bloom.”
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“They don’t have to spend every paycheck on you, but they should spend their free time with you. They don’t have to bring you flowers every day, but they do have to encourage you to bloom.”
“Of all the investments I’ve made, my marriage is the one I value most.”
“The one thing we never lost during all those hard years was our love for each other. We just now know that love is not enough.”
“I used to be with someone who justified every action of violence as love for me. Someone who justified the crazy behaviors and outrageous outbursts in public as love for me. I was embarrassed and humiliated 98% of the time. And I must say, that type of love was dangerous. That type of love was toxic.”
“I don’t want hundreds of dollars spent on materialistic things. I don’t have to have my face and name all over my husband’s social media. I don’t want the Hallmark idea of marriage. I want our perfect.”
“It’s understanding just because you love each other doesn’t always mean you’ll like each other.”
“In most South Asian cultures, to even suggest marrying someone of another race is unthinkable. It took over two years trying to explain how I felt, and a lot of debates, prayers, and tears.”
“I refuse to let myself believe that everyone else has ‘got it going on,’ and they are getting life so right while I haphazardly go through my days like a nervous and confused squirrel in traffic.”
“The problem was not only that my husband couldn’t give me that, but I also never needed it.”
“We sat at a bar booth, ordered wine and split food. We lingered longer and we talked, about more than a day’s worth of usual. And for a few minutes, it felt like before, when ‘us’ meant the two of us, and not the four of us.”