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I don’t really like to admit this, but I spent a lot of years crying in my marriage.<\/p>\n

One day my sister turned to me and said, “Colleen, no one else in your life makes you cry. If it was you, if you were a crier than you would be crying in all of your relationships and in all other aspects of your life.”<\/p>\n

I knew my sister was right. No one else made me cry except for one individual. <\/p>\n

Well, except the Hallmark Channel and animal rescue videos.<\/p>\n

Of course, as a big, massive, tear disclaimer, I must admit that in the past several years I now cry at almost anything and anyone. Making the Hallmark Channel and animal rescue videos all the more challenging. <\/p>\n

The pain from my relationship has been that great. It has bubbled over into all aspects of my life.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand how another human being watches someone cry and sits idly. Is there a payoff in control? In being right? Is it ego?<\/p>\n

Love should always win. <\/p>\n

I don’t understand the need convince someone they are wrong rather than listening to their pain. I want to hear the pain of the ones I love equally as much as I want to hear their joy. It stands to reason that I would most want to hear the pain which may have been caused by me. I have the power to correct that. <\/p>\n

Love should win. Love should always, always win.<\/p>\n

And love–love doesn’t truly exist when someone starts, not stops your tears.
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