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I Really Didn’t Want A Man To Save Me
The Me Before I Met My Husband
By Grace K. Bianco
I have shared mine and my husband’s story many times before, but I have never really shared the before story. The story of who I was and how I thought right before my husband entered my life.
When I left my first relationship, I was only eighteen. At the time, I felt really old.
I was terrified of having to date again. I had never been with anyone else. My ex and I had always planned from the start of our relationship at fourteen and fifteen that we would get married young.
From the time, I was in elementary school. I had always dreamed of being a young wife. My mom got married at 22, and while I was a sophomore in high school, my sister also got married at 22. Being a wife and eventually a mom was all I dreamed about being.
Doubts flooded my mind after my breakup. I began to wonder if that dream of being a young wife was a simple fantasy that wouldn’t come true.
