21 Disturbing Truths About Marriage

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Just because you grandparents where married for 60 years doesn’t mean they were happy. Countless battered wives stayed with abusive husbands because of financial dependence and religious necessity. Churches point to the high divorce rate amoung non religious people as a bad thing, where as for the most part it is just two incompatible people getting out of a bad relationship, and having the financial means to do so.

14.

Whatever issues you have noticed when they had their own place (messy, didn’t cook, leaves laundry around, forgets to pay bills, etc.) will never change.

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An overlooked consideration is that sometimes married couples can love each other and be overall happy, yet silently look at other couples or individuals and wonder what life might have been like had they chosen someone else, or someone else had chosen them.

16.

It’s just really a signing of a paper. Your relationship doesn’t magically change overnight for some reason when you’re married. It’s the same as you where going in.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.