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Endings - Journal

Joseph and I fell in love with the idea of love. It was intoxicating, consuming us with its sexual delights and promises of forever. �
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Reality has a cruel way of intruding. Our paths are diverging, pulling us apart like the tides. I know that love alone cannot sustain us. One man cannot sustain me. As beautiful as our love is, it must eventually end with me in the arms of another. How else should it end? �
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Joseph thinks I�ll one day be his wife. If I�m honest, I know I�ll never have a committed, lifelong relationship with any man. I cannot be any man�s wife.

Written by Nizana

(Lauryn)

Published 20th Feb 2024

Author's Note

Last night's journal entry. Pic is edited from an engagement photo when I was pleased to have that new ring.

#breakup #love

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Re. Endings - Journal

Solomon_Song

- Edited 20th Feb 2024 7:09pm

20th Feb 2024 6:58pm

I can't speak from any personal experience of marriage but I am well read about marriage to say I don't think you are the first person in a couple to have 'cold feet' about marrying someone, doubts if the marriage would be happy etc - it is probably more common than you think, rather like stage fright among the acting fraternity. How about confiding with trusted married friends or those who have been married and remained so until one died? It may also help to think about the effect breaking up might have on your child as well as on a man who has made plain to you his commitment.