This woman has slain my heart with her post. I am copying it here hoping that everyone will subscribe to her. She is wonderful:
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mystrongopinions said about 1 hour ago....
From a woman's perspective...
I've been married for 16 years...
happily and unhappily both...and I spent
the first 10 years telling my husband that I
felt empty...that we had issues...
he didn't listen...to him, everything was ok...
I stopped talking...after 10 years...and we
went on...until one day, I found that
someone else would listen...and I shut
my husband out...for a very long time...
told him I felt trapped, wanted out...that
we married too young...even told the kids
that there would be a trial separation...
he still didn't listen...things would change
for a day or two..and then back to the
simplicity of my life...
He'd complain about work...and doze off
early...not a word to show me that he
cared...other than the fact that he was here
paid the bills...and made sure that his
family had everything he needed...
I cried myself to sleep...for years...
our intimacy was terrible...and he still
wouldn't listen...
I met someone....just a friend, I said....
someone I could talk to....and the emotional
affair began....and I drifted further and
further away from my marriage...but felt
complete...fulfilled...beautiful....
Emotional progressed....to the physical...
my husband was the only man I had ever
been with, dated since 16...married at 19
first child at 22...
And I learned that it could be sooooooo
much better...if someone listened...
and tried to make me happy....
Husband found out....and then,
he listened....
The sad sad part is that we could have
both avoided this, if he had only
paid a little more attention...
I think us women don't want complex
and unrealistic things...it's the simple
ones that seem so hard for men to
give sometimes....
An effort....to put aside your worries..
financial concerns...health issues..
to make the woman in your life feel
appreciated goes a long way....
All we want really is to feel loved....
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hunter_boyce_chandler said about 1 hour ago....
mystrongopinions,
That is the sweetest and most painful thing I have read in a long long time. You are wonderful and deserve to be on someones pedestal every day.
HBC
