When you’re over forty, you’re no longer looking for butterflies.
You want peace, security, and warmth. You just want to live\u2014without games or pretension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He seemed like the right man. 54, an engineer, serious, level-headed, no bad habits.
After three months of dating, we decided to move in together. It all seemed logical.
And two months later, I quietly packed my things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No yelling. No hard feelings. Just left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason? Just two of his “little things.”
Two habits that made the house cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\ud83d\udcfa The first one is the TV.<\/strong> \u201cThis is mine. I\u2019ve lived this way my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n And every day began with anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2615 The second is breakfast conversations.<\/strong> I tried to change the subject. He was offended:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou don\u2019t want to know what\u2019s going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n But I just wanted peace \u2013 within myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n He didn’t beat me, he didn’t cheat, he didn’t humiliate me. I left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udccc Have you ever left someone not because of cheating, but because of the “little things” that slowly kill your soul? When you’re over forty, you’re no longer looking for butterflies.You want peace, security, and warmth. You just want to live\u2014without games or pretension. He seemed like the right man. 54, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20166,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions\/20166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Every morning at six o’clock, the news.
Loud. With an announcer, as if he was broadcasting directly from our bedroom.
I asked him to turn it down. He said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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About politics, illnesses, prices, old age.
Not a single warm topic, not a single smile.
Just endless grumbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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But he also didn’t listen.
And living with someone who doesn’t listen is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now I know: you don’t always have to wait for a huge scandal.
Sometimes you leave simply because it’s become hard to breathe around someone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tell us in the comments \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"