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The less I want to be married. Anyone else feel this way?
I spend a lot of time around married people because I'm a mother and most mothers are married. (Apparently that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be done. I guess I missed that memo.)
I knew that it was hard work but MAN! It can get crazy! I've seen disagreements about disciplining children, problems with sexual intimacy between MARRIED people, arguments about contraceptives, someone finding out a YEAR into the marriage that she and her husband have completely different theological beliefs, a woman who basically waits on her husband hand and foot and he treats her like hired help....it's just....I don't think I can do that? There seems to be so much more wrong with marriage than good in it. What the heck is the point?! I may sound super pessimistic, but seriously, it's the way that I've been feeling as of late.
AND manipulative men who seem to perfectly wonderful and loving to most, behind closed doors can be manipulative, selfish jerks who don't care a lick that his wife's needs aren't being met in the slightest even though it wouldn't take much at all to fix the problem.
I don't know, maybe I'm just coincidentally around a whole lot of awful marriages right now but it's really starting to weigh heavily on me and it's beginning to seriously affect my outlook on the whole thing. I'm definitely not in a "pining for a husband" stage of life. lol
Have any of you ever experienced anything like this? Maybe it's just a phase? Or maybe many more people should stay single or not be in as big of a rush as we thought...
I think this is a venting thread....sorry.
I spend a lot of time around married people because I'm a mother and most mothers are married. (Apparently that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be done. I guess I missed that memo.)
I knew that it was hard work but MAN! It can get crazy! I've seen disagreements about disciplining children, problems with sexual intimacy between MARRIED people, arguments about contraceptives, someone finding out a YEAR into the marriage that she and her husband have completely different theological beliefs, a woman who basically waits on her husband hand and foot and he treats her like hired help....it's just....I don't think I can do that? There seems to be so much more wrong with marriage than good in it. What the heck is the point?! I may sound super pessimistic, but seriously, it's the way that I've been feeling as of late.
AND manipulative men who seem to perfectly wonderful and loving to most, behind closed doors can be manipulative, selfish jerks who don't care a lick that his wife's needs aren't being met in the slightest even though it wouldn't take much at all to fix the problem.
I don't know, maybe I'm just coincidentally around a whole lot of awful marriages right now but it's really starting to weigh heavily on me and it's beginning to seriously affect my outlook on the whole thing. I'm definitely not in a "pining for a husband" stage of life. lol
Have any of you ever experienced anything like this? Maybe it's just a phase? Or maybe many more people should stay single or not be in as big of a rush as we thought...
I think this is a venting thread....sorry.