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Testimonies: Living in a loveless marriage

I got married at the age of 27. The woman i married was only 20 years old at the time, but she convinced me that she was ready to take that life long step into matrimony. I was just as happy as could be at the time, i had a great job working for Reuters America in New York City so i felt it was time for me to settle down and become a man working on building a future with the person i truly loved. We got married at the county clerks office,and from the moment that i arrived there i began to get all the signs that i shouldn't go through with it. First she was nearly two hours late, so i had plenty of time to stand her up, and rethink the entire thing. as i stood there waiting the thoughts that ran thoughts that ran my mind were what am i doing, and is this really the right thing to do for me? She finally showed up as i said nearly two hours late. The proceedings went pretty awkward. she was very nervous, and so was i, but after we got that part out of the way it was off to the reception at her mothers house. At the reception i met lots of her family member that i had never seen before, and of course those that i had already known. Most of the men that i spoke to felt is necessary to inform me that is i did anything wrong they would make sure to hunt me down, and punish me severely. I knew it wasn't any reason for that, i was never that kind of person to begin with. Next there was the so called trip, or honeymoon to Chicago to meet my family. When we arrived it was a total disaster. problems at the airport kept us delayed, once we arrived at my grandmothers house to meet my family i saw something in her that i never saw in the time we dated. When my sister began to question her concerning how our lives were she seemed as if she had no clue how to reply. She didn't know what i did for a living, she couldn't even answer basic questions like how long we had been together. i was very alarmed by the time we began to settle in at my brothers house to rest for the night. The first thing she told me was, i just got my period, and that should have been the final warning sign i needed to see that this marriage was not going to work. I am a guy that feels marriage is for life, there is now escape clause in my mind, and divorce isn't an option. I thought anything could be worked out. I was so wrong. over the next two or three years she began to grow, and change. The woman i thought i knew was simply a simple minded moron in the worse way. She said to me after only a few months


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