2/17/2025 2:54:44 AM
The Day I Almost Walked Away
I don’t know why I’m sharing this, but maybe someone out there needs to hear it. Maybe it will stop them from making the mistake I almost made. My wife and I have been together for ten years, married for seven. We started off as best friends, turned into lovers, and built a life together. But somewhere along the way, life got heavy. Bills, work, responsibilities—they all piled up. And we stopped talking. We still said “I love you,” but they became words out of habit, not feelings. We sat in the same room, but it felt like we were miles apart. I told myself this was just how marriage was supposed to be after a while. The passion fades, the excitement dies down, and you just learn to live with it. Then, one evening, we had a stupid fight. I don’t even remember what it was about. Maybe something as small as forgetting to take the trash out. But it escalated. And for the first time, I said the words I never thought I’d say: “Maybe we’re better off apart.” She didn’t yell. She didn’t cry. She just looked at me and said, “If that’s what you really want.” And in that moment, I saw everything—every memory, every laugh, every late-night talk, every small way she showed me love that I had been too blind to see. I realized that the problem wasn’t that we had fallen out of love. The problem was that we had stopped putting in the effort. Love doesn’t just die—it withers when you stop watering it. That night, instead of leaving, I sat down with her. We talked, really talked, for the first time in months. We both admitted to feeling lonely in our own marriage. And we promised to start choosing each other again, every day. It’s been a few months since then, and I won’t lie—it’s still a work in progress. But now, I hold her hand a little longer, listen a little harder, and remind myself daily that love isn’t something you find and keep. It’s something you build and rebuild, over and over again. If you’re in that place, if you’re wondering whether it’s over—maybe it’s not. Maybe you just need to fight for it. I’m glad I did.
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