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Old 10-22-2007 | 09:52 AM
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ORIGINAL: Bob H in NH

I strongly feel that every marriage has a make/break point, typically around 5-8 years in (the infamous 7 year itch). If you make it through whatever this issue is, more often than not, you will make it long term. If not, then you won't.

Only you can decide if its worth fighting for.
I will 100% agree with that statement. My marriage went through a rough patch just over a year agoright at the 7 year mark. It wasn't easy, it wasn't pretty but we made it through it...so far. Long story short, she did some things that made me somewhat not trust her anymore.I still trust her 100%, but that is based on the whole new line of communication that the events have opened for us. In the first 7 years, I can honestly say I can count the number of fights on one hand, even if I was missing a couple of fingers. After the events last year, I can still count the fights on the same hand and not use any more fingers. She came to me with the truth and I didn't have to pry it out of her. We talked about it rationally like adults, never yelled, never screamed. We found the help of some very close friends and relatives that we knew we could trust and count on. I give them 100% credit on us still being together. Neither one of us wanted to leave, we wanted what we already had, except we knew we needed to change some things to make it right and make it last. I will be the first one to admit, it is/was a lot of work. It is really easy to fall right back to where you were and forget about the promises made to each other.

I want to leave it at this...I personally believe that the courts make divorce too easy. It is so easy that it makes people just right off the marriage as a bad thing and not try and make it work. I am not saying I don't agree with it, because there are deffinatly times when it is neccisary. Marriage is like a job...if you don't work at it...then you will fail.
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