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I’m not pissed he’s having lunch with a customer. I’m resentful that I don’t have a life outside these walls.
And one day, you’ll be my age and you’ll look back on all the decades of your life—the easy ones, the hard ones, too—and you’ll realize it was just a beautiful journey. You weren’t meant to be the young, beautiful version of yourself with purpose and power at the same time. Can you imagine that mess?”
marriage is hard. Well, I’m sure you know that. It’s the hardest thing you can do. The thing that got us through them was simple—we wanted to get through them. It’s amazing how far that one little thing goes.”
“The thing that got us through them was simple—we wanted to get through them. It’s amazing how far that one little thing goes.”
“I’ve been depositing money in our account and nothing into our life—my family’s life. Fuck,”
“I have been a shitty husband. I haven’t been there for her. I’ve focused on creating this life for her but then removed myself from it. I didn’t mean to. I swear, I didn’t. I don’t even know how it happened, but here we are, and now I have to fix it.”
“If she’s the most important thing in your life, then treat her like it,” she says. “Because the fact of the matter is that she’s going to believe you when you show her how you feel. Remember that.”
“What do you need from me, Lo? Ask for it. Let me love you like you want to be loved.”
“Now you all have so many things you can do that you think you have to try them all. But you never get to really experience any of them,” he says. “And you’re so inundated with information and possibilities and connections that you lose sight as to what life really is.”
“My biggest one, though, is that your mother missed out on living her life because of my choices. I kept thinking we’d travel when I retired. We’d come up here and stay all summer together. We’d make up for lost time. But then she died . . . and the time was already gone.”
Don’t get caught up in this performance-based lifestyle the world demands nowadays. The only performance that matters is the one you do with your family.”
Things between Jack and me aren’t perfect. Hell, we argued today. But the truth is that they may never be. They probably won’t be. But I’d much rather have imperfection with him than perfection with someone else.
The magic is taking the time to have a conversation about something that seems insignificant and sending texts throughout the day, just to connect. It’s about ensuring that you give nothing but it all to your marriage, that you say “I do” every single day.
