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Instagram, Facebook, movies and television shows have given us this false perception of marriage.
We believe that everyone, except for us, is living these fabulous lives, with perfect, doting partners, having seamless, stress-free lives. This is not the case; everyone I know deals with the issues throughout their relationship.
It is silly for us to compare our real life to someone else’s filtered, fabricated and false Instagram feed, if we do, we are always going to feel like we are losing. It is even sillier to think that your marriage is going to be in a permanent state of joy and celebration; that shit would be exhausting.
Could you imagine if that were the case? Waking up, every single day, next to an overly enthusiastic partner, so enamoured with you that they can barely focus on anything else going on? Please, I need my coffee first, and I have things to do, so I cannot be madly in love with you every second of every day.
Relationships are not meant to be easy, they are meant to be inspiring.
Perhaps your partner is absent, while trying to deal with their own issues and has left you (emotionally or physically) to deal with the running of the household ship…
