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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 42058" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>I think I would taken "contently" married over "happily" but it could just be my warped perspective. I was raised in a house where my parents despised each other for 20+ years before their divorce and made no secret of it. I learned from them how to do better, I think. Happiness is in my mind a fleeting thing. Content, to me, is more stable.</p><p></p><p>I'm occasionally happily married. Majority of the time contently married. Extremely rarely unhappily married.</p><p></p><p>Marriage is a whole lot more work than I ever imagined. Somehow I got suckered into that whole "happily ever after" ideal. Was a rude awakening when it turned out to be not that easy. Throw in the challenges of our first child passing and the next 2 with significant disabilities... nope, hasn't been an easy road all the time. on the other hand, it is a road we've traveled together, even when at times I'm sure we both were wishing to be anywhere but here LOL. I think for husband and me, being married is a conscious choice we make on a regular basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 42058, member: 8"] I think I would taken "contently" married over "happily" but it could just be my warped perspective. I was raised in a house where my parents despised each other for 20+ years before their divorce and made no secret of it. I learned from them how to do better, I think. Happiness is in my mind a fleeting thing. Content, to me, is more stable. I'm occasionally happily married. Majority of the time contently married. Extremely rarely unhappily married. Marriage is a whole lot more work than I ever imagined. Somehow I got suckered into that whole "happily ever after" ideal. Was a rude awakening when it turned out to be not that easy. Throw in the challenges of our first child passing and the next 2 with significant disabilities... nope, hasn't been an easy road all the time. on the other hand, it is a road we've traveled together, even when at times I'm sure we both were wishing to be anywhere but here LOL. I think for husband and me, being married is a conscious choice we make on a regular basis. [/QUOTE]
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