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Does 'Happily Ever After' Really Happen?
So many of us stood at the alter saying our wedding vows knowing that we would do a better job of things than our parents had done. We grew up with storybooks and movies showing us that once you got to the wedding day, 'they all lived happily ever after.' Then when our marriages do not turn out quite like that we have all of this guilt and feelings of failure. We tell ourselves that we must be flawed or that our partners did not try hard enough and that is why we failed at something that should have been easy and blissful. The truth is, 'happily ever after' is very rare and it is not a very realistic expectation.
Yes, I have seen it happen, but only twice. Both couples were very similar and yet
quite different. When I met them, they were settled into a lovely smooth rhythm
and all of them were in their early 50's. Both of the women were very strong independent
charming personalities. Each could lead an army if she chose, but would rather keep
things peaceful whenever possible. These were not weak docile submissive women by
any means. They both spoke their minds openly and honestly but with tact and diplomacy.
You knew were you stood with them and you knew why they felt the way they did about
things. I never heard either of them whine or complain about rolling up their sleeves
and getting to work. They both kept incredibly clean beautiful homes and made it
look effortless. They both married men who fell in love with them at first sight.
Both men were intelligent, charming, peace-
Why doesn't it happen like that for the rest of us? The painful truth is that most of us are not as mentally healthy and emotionally stable as the two couples I just described. First of all, if we are honest, our parents rarely role model 'happily ever after' to us. Yes they may have stayed together but not because they were happy. They stayed together because of religious beliefs, cultural peer pressure, fear of being alone, financial needs, or out of some sort of codependent twisted need. If your goal is to simply stay married, than those are all perfectly valid motivators to keep you with your spouse. However, if you actually want to like the person you are with and like who you are when you are with them, then it is going to take more than these outside influences to keep a marriage together. So many people say that marriage is hard work. If you are married only because of morals or values and not because you genuinely enjoy living with your spouse, then yes, I suppose it is quite difficult to make a marriage last. Our parents usually role model commitment and tenacity despite the fact that they really don't like each other very much or they role model cutting your losses and moving on to pursue something less stressful and difficult. But we cannot blame our parents for our own marriages can we? We are old enough to know that it is up to us to make or break our own vows.
One of the biggest mistakes we make is that we feel so insecure and afraid that nobody
will want us, so we marry the first nice person who comes along without really analyzing
if we are truly compatible on a deeper more meaningful level. The initial rush of
someone, anyone liking us is usually all it takes to convince ourselves as teenagers
and young twenty-
So many of us think that if we find Prince Charming or Miss Right that we will be so happy and we will feel so much unconditional love that we will just morph into better versions of ourselves. We stand there at the alter saying our vows really believing in our heart of hearts that by saying these vows we are automatically supposed to be capable of creating 'happily ever after' with each other. The only way that is going to happen is if both of you are healthy on all levels before joining together and neither of you is marrying out of desperation, need, or settling for less than what you really want in life. 'Healthy' does not mean 'perfect' and 'need' does not mean 'love.' You must be healthy enough to truly love the other just as they are. If you are both healthy and compatible, then your relationship should flow easily. You may have to work at parenting, work at financial goals, work at finding time for each other, but you should never have to work at finding the love between you.
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