It happens so slowly that we don't even realize it. We go from the idealistic young woman into a relationship. Even a relationship without addiction, illness, or any other life altering circimstance has it's challenges. All is not ever going to be all candlelit dinners and roses into eternity.
It happens so slowly that we don't even realize that we are tolerating things that the idealistic person we used to be would never have dreamed of. Then here come the kids and the neighbors and society's expectations of us. And we find ourselves feeling trapped and feeling guilty for feeling the way we are feeling. It must be something we are doing wrong.
And in a way it is. We can fix it!
((Hugs))
JT