I am a 26-year-old Marriage and Family Studies major at Brigham Young University – Idaho.
I am the youngest of five children. My mother and father were high school sweethearts who married when they were 19. They divorced after my father was arrested for abusing my sisters and me. I was raised in a single-parent home from age 4 to age 13, when my mother remarried.
Her second marriage was devoid of abuse, but it was not easy. She and her husband were in marriage counseling for the majority of their marriage, which ended when he passed away after ten years of marriage. Despite the rockiness of the marriage, their last few years together were happy. They were each other’s best friend.
Three of my older siblings are married. They are all much happier with their spouses than my mother seemed to be with hers. I guess they learned from her mistakes?
I have been married for 4 years now. My husband and I met in high school and had some rocky dating years. However, we’re smoothing out the rough edges in our relationship. A little bit of that smoothing out comes from trial and error, but more and more is coming from what I’m learning as a student.
The Art of Marriage 