Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a ‘storybook marriage.’ Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.