Group hug! To everyone who has lost their loved ones, and to those who are single, but also to those who are in my situation: I am married with 3 children, been with my husband for 16 years, married for nearly 14. The children are hard work, I'm a stay-at-home mum, it gets boring and lonely sometimes (although I have some good friends I see during the day), my husband and I don't have much time alone and we argue a lot especially about the children. Sometimes I do think it would be better to be single, but I couldn't support my children and they wouldn't want to be without him, neither would he without them. So we plod along. I can't say it's a happy marriage, but I guess once you have children, you make things work for their sake as well. So I think, there's no point in envying others for what you might think they have, single people aren't happier than married people (except maybe newly-weds
) and vice versa. Marriage isn't the best thing in the world, it doesn't necessarily mean living with someone you are in love with. I love my husband for a lot of things, but I can't say I'm in love with him anymore. Marriage is about compromises, but it's also about supporting each other. It's nice to have someone to come home to, but sometimes it's also nice to come home to an empty house.
I hope we all find what we want and can be happy regardless of our marital status.
And what's better to make us happy? NAIL POLISH!
This came in the post today. I'm still waiting for loads from Llalrowe. When is the CbL restock, is it this Wednesday? Or was that something else?