My Husband Told Me That Talking About My Dreams Made Him Want To Throw Up

Lorelai Parks
4 min readJan 25, 2023
Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

We were together for over 6 years when we got married and we had already lived together for 5 years by the time we said ‘I do’, which seems normal. Plenty of time to get to know each other. So the question we ask ourselves and I feel everyone was whispering about, or hell, maybe I was the only one asking myself this, the mind-boggling, million dollar question is why, as soon as we tied the knot, did things go directly south?

Was this the biggest mistake of my life? What was happening in my head was the worst of the worst. Separated after two short years of marriage, 2 miscarriages, dog died, middle of a pandemic, sell the house, we failed, I am a failure, I am never going to find the person I am meant to be with, is this all my fault? Did I ignore my intuition before spending $20,000 of my dad’s investment on an amusement park wedding? Sounds like a circus to me.

It’s still not clear, I did want this marriage to work, BUT NOT AT ALL COST.

I was asked to give up all of my dreams, get back to work at a corporate job and just basically ‘suck it up’ because our house was the most important thing in the world and we had to keep it. It was my idea to sell the house, but realtor husband, needs a house or else what kind of realtor could he be? How could an image be upheld…

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