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The One Secret for Men To Stay in Love Forever
My wife, Carlin, and I have each been married twice before.
My wife, Carlin, and I have each been married twice before. Like most everyone, we grew up in families that were dysfunctional in various ways. I think of our journey as being a confluence of separate rivers of life. Our parents each had their own stream and came together to produce us. Each time we marry, once again two separate rivers come together to produce a new river made up of each of our previous streams.
I believe the deep purpose of marriage is to heal old wounds so that we can love ourselves more deeply, love our partner more completely, and create loving offspring. These can be our own children or creative offerings that help make the world a better place.
That’s not what I thought when I married Carlin. Consciously I thought I was marrying a beautiful woman who brought me great joy. But soon the conflict set in and for years we struggled to get the other to treat us the way we wanted and needed to be treated. It took us a while to realize that we had each created a home that emotionally was very similar to the one we grew up in, along with the same conflicts that bedeviled us growing up.
