34. The Bride Stripped Bare, Anonymous

"A resolution, in mid-August. You have no move beyond this mewly time, all whingy and wrong, you have to haul yourself our. A resolution that some of the momentous issues in a relationship can in the end nly be ignored if you want the relationship to survive, they can't be worked through and tossed out. Which is why, perhaps, some people in long-term partnerships have learnt to live with what they don't like. To reclaim the calm. You've seen it marriages that've weathered infidelity, have seen them contract into a tightness in old age. Do you want the relationship to survive? It's easier to stay than to go."