I was sure I wanted to marry my boyfriend of 10 years – until he ended things suddenly. A year later, I've found a strength in myself I've never known before.

Insider via Yahoo ^ | January 5, 2023 | Julia Naftulin

[grundle]

He got the best 10 years of her life. He may have "talked" about marriage, but talk is meaningless. Why should he buy the cow when he was getting the milk for free?

[madison10]

Exactly. My favorite axiom.

[imabadboy99]

missed her biological window. Adopt some cats.

[doorgunner69]

I dunno if a teenager sees things quite like that, but in retrospect, that is what he got.

[doorgunner69]

“missed her biological window. Adopt some cats.”

Nah, from the time lapse indicated, she is late twenties, just about becoming old enough to be interesting as a woman.

Another guy will come along, she does need to keep an eye on her weight, from the picture.

[Mount Athos]

probably around two percent of this is true

[Spaceman61]

Or he finally grew up and found out she was just crazy. Cause when it comes right down to it...they’re all crazy...just differently on the logarithmic scale

[MDLION]

Girls that wait for marriage. They find out the character of the man pretty quickly. They have a good conscience and spare themselves years of neurotic merry-go-round drama. The worldlings mock Christians and can’t figure out why themselves feel miserable and used.

[bigbob]

In other words she’s found the strength of box wine and Netflix

[cherry]

gals, please don't be strung along....if he doesn't want to marry, he doesn't want to marry and believe me, YOU don't want to marry that kid of guy....

move on....dump his sorry arse and find someone who is serious about marriage, family....

[grey_whiskers]

She looks like tons of fun!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[caww]

That is absolutely right!

[Trailerpark Badass]

“Learned to practice self-compassion...”

Is that what they’re calling it now?

[caww]

Couples don't marry today...they simply hook up and live together until one or the other wants to move on.....and invariably one of them will.

[Trailerpark Badass]

And she writes the Insider’s dating advice column? I guess her advice is “do the opposite of what I did.”

[alstewartfan]

This woman was a fool, and we’re I her friend, I would have told her so, many years before TEN.

[caww]

We have a family member who met her boyfriend at age 14 ...now in their mid-twenties living together.....or better said playing house.

[Maudeen]

Without Jesus at the heart of a relationship all is for naught.

[Secret Agent Man]

It wasn’t free. Theres nothing free for men when it comes to dating and courting women. Only women think its free for men.

And if she was the one who wanted to end it and he didn’t, the women here would be totally supportive of her and the guy just needs to suck it up and move on. There would be tue same total support for herno matter what, and the guy is the ahole no matter what.

Thanks for proving me right ladies.