3 Vital Skills to Look For In Your Future Life Partner
Topics that might seem uncomfortable, but extremely important to be tackled before making lifelong commitments.
“We are married, but my husband and I have completely separate lives. It feels like we are strangers.”
My friend Radhika and I were exchanging news about recent life events, but the conversation slowly veered towards her marriage and how her husband seemed to have given up on the relationship. The tears she had in her eyes weren’t tears of unhappiness, but tears of frustration.
The frustration of constantly having her expectations crushed.
The frustration of waiting for a change that never comes
The frustration of giving it her all, but not succeeding in making her husband “interested” in her.
I’m not married, but this conversation broke my heart. In the book, You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married, the author Brett R. Williams found that only 17 percent of couples are content with their partner. A 2014 study by the National Opinion Research Center suggests that people are becoming less and less happy in their marriages as time goes on. According to a report by Daily Mail:
- More than six out of ten adults in a…