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Who married up? She was just as bad off as me, but her job had better benefits. Which wasn't why we got married. I was still a burger jokey for two years after we got married, then I did some investigating.

All people change radically as they get older, that's how life works. The thing is to grow older together, to understand each others changes. It's a sad person who's spent years ignoring their spouse that thinks the person suddenly changed. They didn't, they don't. All people change a little bit every day, including you. That's part of the fun. How monotonous would life be if we never learned and changed at any point in the 80 years or so we're hoping to have on the planet? My wife isn't at ALL the same person I married 10 years ago, thank God for small favors. I'm too old and impatient to put up with someone that naive anymore, which tells you that I'm not the same person either.

Everything except the laws of the universe constantly changes but change is not always a good thing. If you marry a girl thinking she is perfect currently then the probability is of her changeing for the worse and not for the better.