julietsierra -> RE: deception (9/18/2007 7:59:07 PM)
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I've been in the hypothetical situation the OP is talking about, and in my world, love does NOT conquer all. One of the most important things to me when I was married was the fact that the person I married was someone who had a strong sense of family. The day he told me that our family member with Down Syndrome would never amount to anything, and that my idealistic ideas of education were going to amount to absolutely nothing because she would be absolutely nothing, was the day I realized that the family man I married... was not the family man I married. I divorced him. She is 19 now, and to this day, he only tolerates her. Unfortunately she loves him dearly and doesn't understand why he doesn't want her around. I thought we'd be celebrating our 50th anniversary one day. I decided that there was no way I could, in good conscience, stay in that marriage and at the same time, be a good mother. Sometimes love is NOT the be all end all to things. I don't hate him. Hate is too strong of an emotion to invest in someone who can think like that about his only daugher. But there are just something that love can't overcome. juliet
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