How Do You Measure Patience? - Part 5

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I don’t know how it is. Let me be honest, I really don’t know how it is.

Sometimes I hear stories of marriages and think it is the best thing to happen since sliced bread but other times when I hear stories and witness interactions between couples, I shudder.

‘What can your partner do to make you leave them?’ people ask couples. You see the smiles on their faces after a sun-kissed honeymoon and they boldly say nothing. Take a look at some of them a few years down the line and the story is in shreds.

When it’s beginning to rip apart, I ask myself, whose role is it to make it work? Why is she trying to make it work with him when he beat her? Why is he fighting to keep her when she cheated?

When it’s ripped apart in shreds, I wonder, is it that easy to give up on love? Have they truly had enough? How do you measure ‘enough’? Indeed, how do you measure patience?

So no, I don’t know how it is, but I know that’s not the answer she’s waiting for, so I said Yes.

But that’s not the case here, is it? We’re here because of the stone. The famous birthday stone. Gifting your wife a stone for her birthday can definitely not be compared to cheating or domestic violence right? It is an abomination to even compare them.

Sigh! But what if it can?

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