Is everyone everywhere secretly in an unhappy marriage?
I’m scared. Really scared. I wonder. Is there such a thing as a happy marriage? I’m beginning to have my doubts. I’m learning the truth about the unspoken secrets of an unhappy marriage.
Since I’ve become legally separated, I’m the official representative of the “almost unmarrieds” and as such people divulge lots of information about their own marriage. People corner me everywhere.
At a school play, a Mom comes up to me and confides that her husband lives in another wing of their house.
A work colleague divulges that she and her husband haven’t had sex in 9 years. Sweet Baby Jesus! NINE YEARS! (I hope she has some battery powered “devices” to keep her company.)
Or the friend from back home whose husband has been having an affair for so many years, she can’t even recall.
WTF? Are there any people out there that are happily married? Or is a happy marriage a systematic lie of Western Civilization like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and clump free mascara?
What about all those pics I see on Facebook? Happy smiling family on beach. Happy smiling family at Disneyland. Is Facebook just a happy smiling newsfeed of lies?
The view of my future is changing. Maybe I’ll never remarry. What’s the use if there is no such thing as a marriage that isn’t a fabricated farce?
Maybe I’ll just move to central Oregon, stop shaving, and amass an army of cats. I can hide from the world in a mass of armpit hair and cat fur. Besides, cats seem happy. And they don’t lie about it on Facebook either.
Do you know anyone who is really in a happy marriage?
I hope so!
xoxo-Rosie
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