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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Marriage

We walked the aisle, said “I do,” and stuffed cake in each others faces when I was 24.I wasn’t 25 before I realized that I had absolutely no idea how to be married.I brought a lifetime of bad ideas and bloated expectations to this enigmatic relationship, and the deeper we got into marriage, the more ridiculous some of my most basic assumptions about it proved to be.After slamming doors and screaming matches became regular hobbies of ours, I knew I needed to put some of these basic expectations t