I will keep encouraging my friends and family to continue to hope and fight for this country. I don't know how or when I can greet my husband in the morning with my usual hug when I wrap my arms around his strong shoulders, smell the intoxicating scent of his spicy cologne and smile, knowing we are one. We are now two, and it is agonizing.
While the saying goes no man is an island, I beg to differ, as I am married to one. My husband has little to no patience with anyone, family included. He has always been negative, and as he grows older, it has grown 10 times worse. Over the past 15 years, my husband has alienated most of his (our) friends to the point where he no longer has any contact with them. He literally walks away from them in public.
I'm a 39-year-old man, and have been married to my wife, "Ciara," for the past 10 years. We've had some ups and downs, and have been in a pretty rocky state for the past year or so. There hasn't been one big incident; it's mostly career stress, especially since my own job often requires me to take evening/night shifts. While the pay is excellent, we don't see as much of each other as we used to.