For Better Or Worse: Tales From A Married Man

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pride and love do not mix.

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pride and love do not mix.

Solomon
Aug 11, 2021
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pride and love do not mix.

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Pride and love do not mix. One day pride might cost me the love of my life.

My wife would call me out as a liar if I delivered this any other way, so there is no advice here; only testimony.

Do not make the same mistakes me — learn to forgive.  

Once I stopped speaking to my wife. I lasted for four days straight; complete radio silence. No calls, messages or Facebook notifications. That is how I dealt with issues back then. Silence. Not an I need space to clear my head silence, a piss off I will talk when I’m ready to silence. Followed by days laying in bed finding reasons to stay angry at her so that I did not “give in”. 

I have almost lost it all; my joy, my family because of my relationship with a five letter word: sorry. 

Bro, it’s not that deep. It’s just a word.

Please shut up, you have no idea what you are talking about.

 In a relationship sorry is not just a word. It can not be just a word. Sorry is just a word when you bump into someone by accident or you accidentally offend a col…

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