fromSlate Magazine
1 day agoThere's One Thing That Is Essential to Me Before I Tie the Knot. My Fiance Is Refusing to Do It.
When I was 10, my dad had a midlife crisis, and, without warning the family, he quit his job to "find himself." My parents had three kids plus a baby, and my mom hadn't been in the workforce for years. It was financially devastating. She ended up divorcing him eventually, but it was bad. Now I'm getting married, and this childhood experience, along with something particular in my husband's past, have led me to make a certain request of my fiancé.
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