Dear Carolyn: I married my high-school sweetheart when we were both 25 not because we were soul mates or even particularly happy together, but because we were imagination-lacking, co-dependent and afraid to let go. We stayed married for three years before I cried uncle and filed for divorce, with his agreement that it was the right thing to do. While it was painful at first, we have wound up more or less friends again, and share a social circle.
He is getting married again in four weeks, and Im invited to the wedding. First marriage for the new bride. Ive been perusing their wedding website and, maybe this is my glass of wine talking, but Im having a hard time with all the quotes and hashtags that reference forever. She is so happy they will be together forever.
Dont get me wrong, I hope their marriage works out, but that language seems ridiculous considering he has been married before, believing it would be forever, and it wasnt. This is leading me to rethink attending their wedding — Im afraid I might scoff my way through the ceiling. Any ideas to reshape my thinking? Feeling Discarded
