All the Red Flags I Ignored Before I Got Married
How do you balance compromise against deal-breakers?
Do you know what we should teach kids in school? Do you know what would save them from financial ruin, poor career choices, and heartbreak?
If we taught them to follow their instincts.
The red flags before my marriage weren’t always subtle. Some of them covered my face like a kidnapper abducting me and throwing me in the back of a van. Still, I ignored them.
I’m going to blame my upbringing on my inability to make good judgment calls. Growing up in an ultra-religious, strict household, you’re raised to follow rules and not question them. When you defy the expectations, you’re met with such shock from others that you learn to distrust your own choices.
If only I acknowledged those red flags, I probably would have saved myself from almost two decades of marital heartache.
I was a clean freak and he was a slob
Opposite attract, right? I learned the hard way that doesn’t apply to hygiene and cleanliness.
If there is an extreme imbalance in how two people live with respect to doing and maintaining…
