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Re: How fateful?

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I was reluctant to mention this kind of story in such a sweet context but a few comments have already touched on privacy, so I want to add my two cents. At some point in the past I had the surreal experience of opening a news website and seeing a familiar face on the front page. Not a celebrity, rather a man whose face had been in some small subfolder of my brain for several years. The man had been convicted of seria…

That's awful. I'm sorry that happened to you.

Re: How fateful?

#342

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A "good marriage" isn't guaranteed to be a desirable one past the wedding day. I am in no way suggesting GP's marriage is a ticking time bomb, but I've read enough stories on Reddit and elsewhere to know there's no such thing as a guaranteed marriage even if you do everything right. My expectation is that GP's or his spouse might possess insight. People who's marriages I thought would go on till death (Bezos's, Gates…

Many who are / have been in bad marriages complain loudly about it. The many in good marriages rarely talk about it ("bragging"). Thus, take such stories online with a grain of salt. Especially since many are blind to their own faults, and therefore can't include them in their stories.

My thoughts exactly. When the comment you responded to mentioned the word "reddit," this immediately came to mind.
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