Deciding on a divorce is never easy. Telling
someone that you once thought you’d love that you don’t want to be with them
anymore can be awfully distressing. Some people grow apart, some people change,
but it is also very easy to take a person for granted.
This story is bound to tug at your heart strings,
get the tissues ready!
My husband is an engineer, we
have been together 5 years, three years courtship, and two years marriage. I
hate to admit it, but I am getting tired of it. I love his steady nature, and
the feeling I get when I lay on his chest. But something just isn’t quite right
anymore.
I am a very sentimental woman when it
comes to relationships and my feelings. I crave romance, but I am the total
opposite to my husband. He lacks sensitivity, and his inability to be romantic
has disheartened me about love.
One day I finally decided to tell him
that I wanted a divorce.
“Why?” he asked shocked. “I am tired
it just exhausts me, instead of injecting life in to me.” I answered. He was
silent.
He didn’t speak to me the whole
night, which only increased my disappointment, that man who apparently loved me
can’t even express his feelings to me. Then he finally asked me, “What
can I do to change your mind?”
I didn’t know what
to say to him at first, you can’t change someones personality just because you
want them to change. I felt hopeless. Looking deep into his eyes I slowly
answered “Here is the question, if you can answer and convince my heart, I will
change my mind. Let’s say, I want a flower located on the face of a mountain
cliff, and we both are sure that picking the flower will cause your death, will
you do it for me?”
He paused for a moment and said “I
will give you your answer tomorrow…”
My hopes sank even further listening
to his response.
The next morning I woke up and he was
gone. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a piece of paper with scruffy
handwriting on it, underneath a glass of milk. The first line read: “I
would not pick that flower for you, but please allow me to explain the reasons
further..”, my heart sunk and I continued reading.
“I need my fingers so that when you
mess up on the computer I can restore the programs for you. You have a tendency
to leave your keys at home, so I need my legs so I can rush home to open the
door for you. You always get lost when we travel to new cities, so I need my
eyes to show you the way. You always have cramps when it is the time of the
month, so I have to save my palms so that I can calm the cramps in your tummy.
I
need my mouth to tell you jokes, and stories to cure your boredom. Your eyes
are already bad, so I need to save mine because I’ll hold your hand and walk
you down the beach as you enjoy the sunshine on your face and the sand between
your toes. Unless there is someone out there who loves you more thanI do, I
could not pick that flower yet and die…”
I felt the tears rolling down my
cheek, which fell onto the paper and blurred the ink, I continued reading. “Now
that you have finished reading, if you are satisfied I’m waiting outside with
your favourite bread and fresh milk.”
I ran downstairs and opened the front
door where he was stood waiting anxiously, but when he saw me he smiled.
In that moment I knew that no one
will love me as much as he does, and I have decided to leave the flower alone…
When you are surrounded by love, the
feeling of excitement can fade away, but it doesn’t mean it ceases to exist. We
forget the fact that true love lies in between the peace and the dullness.
That’s life, and love. When one is
surrounded by love, the feeling of excitement fades away, and one tends to
ignore the true love that lies in between the peace and dullness.
Love appears in all forms throughout
your day, flowers and romantic moments are only a visual surface appreciation
of your relationship. Under all this, the pillar of love stands, and that’s our
life…Words don’t win arguments, love does.
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