Hiking Through The Hard Times
Things haven't been going that easy for Jensen and me. We fight a lot. Sometimes we fight because one of us is tired, or because of money, or sex, or whatever comes up. For lots of reasons, our marriage has been hard. He had PTSD and wanted to be alone all the time or exhibited a lot of anger. I had depression and was facing major loss when my mom got cancer and died. I didn't handle it well, and my symptoms lasted for multiple years, so did his. The one thing we do right, though, is we are best friends. We take regular walks together and hang out alot. We laugh alot, and genuinely enjoy the other's company. The other stuff, we decided, we need to work on. At least we have the friendship part down. So many other marriages, the ones I hear about anyway, aren't sitting on a strong friendship foundation. They actually don't like each other. They tolerate each other. That seems weird to me. I could never agree to live with someone forever that I just don'...
