Marriage

It has been a long week!

My husbands family started doing an annual weekend away for all of us, this is the 2nd year.  It was just as disorganised (maybe even more so) than last year but I guess when you have 10 of us all together it is to be expected.  This year we each had our own space to retreat too and that was a blessing.

I am not going to go into the positive and negatives about this weekend, as others may read this and I don't want to hurt peoples feelings and today I would hurt peoples feelings.  I am sure it's just the mood I am in.

Marriage is hard, not easy and I think people give up to easily, but how long do you try to make it work.  How long before you and your partner begin resenting each other, how long do you fight before your children pick up on it.

This weekend really made me look at our relationship and think these thoughts.  The last year has been tough on us, in part because I think some extended family problems are coming into our relationship - even though we have nothing to do with it.  It all comes down to the way people make my husband feel, and they way our children are being treated.  We then fight about it, we try to talk about it and then those resentment feelings come into play. 

Maybe it's the people we are around, we are friends with 4 different couples who are discussing divorce or are attempting to make things work, so it puts you in that frame of mind......