Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.
Forgiveness is difficult,_ she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. __ou don__ have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept what__ happened and start to take steps away from the infidelity._ So once again, the burden is on me. Planning the wedding, though it was a genuine joy, was on me. Once we figured out why we couldn__ get pregnant, the burden was on me, too, with those horrible shots that made me so hormonal I had to go into the bathroom at work and cry, and everyone knew and was so nice, which made me cry more. All Adam had to do was switch to wearing boxers and have more sex. The pregnancy__e again. I__ the one with a four-inch scar and a pooch of skin. The house decorating, painting, hiring people to overhaul the plumbing and electric_ me. His mother__ birthday__lso mine to remember. Holidays, vacations, weekend plans, all mine. And while I would never call my girls a burden, the huge responsibility of raising them is 99 percent mine. And now the future of our marriage is on me. I have to forgive him. I have to accept his apology. I have to get past this. That first night, I lay stiffly next to him. He gave me a meaningful basset-hound look and said, __hank you, Rachel,_ and it was all I could do not to flip him off.
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Forgiveness is difficult,_ she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. __ou don__ have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept what__ happened and start to take steps away from the infidelity._ So once again, the burden is on me. Planning the wedding, though it was a genuine joy, was on me. Once we figured out why we couldn__ get pregnant, the burden was on me, too, with those horrible shots that made me so hormonal I had to go into the bathroom at work and cry, and everyone knew and was so nice, which made me cry more. All Adam had to do was switch to wearing boxers and have more sex. The pregnancy__e again. I__ the one with a four-inch scar and a pooch of skin. The house decorating, painting, hiring people to overhaul the plumbing and electric_ me. His mother__ birthday__lso mine to remember. Holidays, vacations, weekend plans, all mine. And while I would never call my girls a burden, the huge responsibility of raising them is 99 percent mine. And now the future of our marriage is on me. I have to forgive him. I have to accept his apology. I have to get past this. That first night, I lay stiffly next to him. He gave me a meaningful basset-hound look and said, __hank you, Rachel,_ and it was all I could do not to flip him off.
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