{"id":19339,"date":"2025-03-03T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:10:17","slug":"a-marriage-built-on-forgiveness-and-resentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/?p=19339","title":{"rendered":"A Marriage Built on Forgiveness and Resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"54\" data-end=\"536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19340\" src=\"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-Edith-Flitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-Edith-Flitter.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-Edith-Flitter-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-Edith-Flitter-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/12-Edith-Flitter-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"311fe198f191a864c1efcdfa9efedfdf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1782571\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been married for 10 years. In the beginning, my husband wasn\u2019t the man I had hoped he would be. He treated me poorly, and worst of all, he was unfaithful. But I was young, na\u00efve, and hopeful that love and forgiveness could change things. I convinced myself that his mistakes were temporary, that with time, he would grow, and we would build something lasting. So, I forgave him. I chose to move forward, and together, we created a life\u2014a home, children, and a shared history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"964\">For a while, it felt like the right decision. I buried the pain, believing that love meant enduring, that my sacrifices would one day be rewarded. But as the years passed, something inside me shifted. Around year five or six, resentment began to take root. The hurt I had pushed aside resurfaced, and I could no longer ignore the way his past actions had shaped me. I felt disconnected, unfulfilled, and emotionally distant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1374\">I found myself longing for something more, something I had never truly experienced\u2014passion, excitement, the feeling of being truly desired. Slowly, thoughts of other men crept into my mind. It wasn\u2019t just physical attraction; it was the idea of being seen, appreciated, and valued in a way I never had been. I never set out to betray him, but the desire for something different became impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1475\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">I started questioning everything\u2014our marriage, my choices, and whether love was ever really enough.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been married for 10 years. In the beginning, my husband wasn\u2019t the man I had hoped he would be. He treated me poorly, and worst of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19341,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions\/19341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findpath.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}