QUOTE(parisiansky @ Apr 18 2025, 04:50 PM)
How did yr first love not meet yr expectations?
We didn't understand love vs affection. We were too "in love" to realize we are not compatible with each other. Fate brought us together and we are too blissful when we went along with the flow until we realize what we thought was love is not actually what it is. By the time we realize we already gone too far, and we are now too indifferent to even bother to separate. Too indifferent to try to find the spark. Just cruise along while raising the kids with our best effort. Feels like u are stuck in traffic jam, but u go through it irregardless. Not like u can say "fuk it" then u-turn and drive away. U still has to endure it because quitting is impossible.
QUOTE(nihility @ Apr 18 2025, 05:25 PM)
It is only 1/2 of a life cycle. You still have 1/2 of the life cycle to experience.
To make changes, we lead by example. When we change, the other half will follow. You have to put it this way: if the wife is your own children, can you give up & abandon them? Can you just say they are hopeless & won't change?
Leading people close to you to change sometimes cannot use a direct approach or talk only if it takes more than that. Don't give up.
took me many years to learn everyone has a fixed personality. We learn to mask it through sheer will power but can never change it permanently.
Like flow of a river, it will always flow like water does, you can forcefully change the flow but it will always lead back to the natural way. You can build a dam to control the current, find way to utilize the build up water, redirection etc. The water still flow in the end from high to low with same fluidity.