Lessons From the End of a Marriage
I met up with a friend the other day. She’s at a crossroads with the man she’s been dating for the past year or so. She wants marriage. Not now, but she wants to move that direction and wants that to be the mutual end goal. At this point, he states he does not want marriage. Now or at any point. They’re in that difficult place where the relationship works, but the objectives of the partnership don’t align.
Having known Brock back in the days when he said he never wanted to be married, she inquired, “How did you get him to change?”
The short answer?
I didn’t.
And I couldn’t. At least not in any meaningful and lasting way.
I didn’t make him change. I didn’t ask him to change. I didn’t expect him to change.
But here’s what I did do:
I Accepted Where We Were
I always…
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This is why so many marriages fail. Women are convinced they can get the man to change. My advice, if you want to change him, then you’re not happy with who he is… don’t marry!