Chapter 7 is a chapter about family and marriage. I thought it offered a lot of interesting reads.
I am 30 and have never been married although I’ve been in 2 fairly long relationships in my lifetime and lived like I was married at least that’s how I felt. I have an 11 year old daughter from my first long relationship lasting right around 7 years and began when I was merely 17 years old. I did get engaged to my daughter’s father and really thought I had found the man I wanted to spend my life with. As the years passed so did our feelings for each other and eventually we separated for good when our daughter was just turning 5.
I have now been in a relationship for the past 6 years and am pregnant with my second child. I’m not sure that this relationship will work either. It seems as though we grow farther and farther apart as the years go by. I have come to realize that maintaining your feeling’s for someone over many years is very hard. I mean people change and sometimes adapting to those changes is easier said then done. Although we planned to have this child, now that I’m pregnant I’m not sure it’s even something he wants or needs for that matter. He’s 34 with no children and he’s helped me raise my daughter for the past 6 years, so I expected him to be happy about being a father but I’m not sure that’s what’s happening. It seems in the past few months of my pregnancy we just continue to fall even farther apart and maybe even stuck.
My parents have been together for over 30 years now and I have to tip my hat to them because I can’t seem to get past this 7 year itch in relationships.
