I clicked over to this article from the sidebar of google news, and found myself feeling queasy while reading it. The author interviewed 200 women in long-term marriages (anywhere from 15-70 years together), and what she heard from them left me stunned and relieved and saddened all at the same time.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts about it, particularly if you are currently or were formerly in a long term partnership. I have been blissfully single for quite some time (and plan to stay that way for the foreseeable future), so this stuff is a distant memory for me, but it does ring true in some ways.
And it also breaks my heart to learn that so many good, kind men and women are settling for the kind of life together that she portrays here. Surely there is much more to this story ... yes?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iris-krasnow/the-fine-line-between-mar_b_959372.html
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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I said once, in my second marriage, that I'd rather spend every day for the rest of my life alone than one more day married and lonely. I was never so lonely as I was when I was married. Now? I love the freedom that comes with being single! I would like to have someone in my life, but he's going to have to be awfully special for me to change what I have now. I think the perfect situation is to live next door to each other and have separate houses.
ReplyDeleteThat was an interesting article! A sheep???? Wow. :)
thanks, Sandi. I've heard that next door idea before, and it has some appeal to me as well!
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