I don't often share my experience with people unless I feel like it will help them. Recently one of my teachers said that this experience I have had will be able to help others. Therefore I have decided to share it. This is my story and the lesson I learned.
Wedding
bells, a beautiful reception, and marrying the so-called “love of my life”
quickly approached me at the young age of 20. The thought never even crossed
my mind that those things would not actually occur. Everything seemed
perfect. Floating on cloud nine—as they say—can sometimes cause a symptom
known as “blinded by love.” I became the epitome of just such a scenario. My
almost-perfect fiancé could hardly improve, in my eyes. However, he left me
completely unaware of a very deadly secret: he had an addiction to pornography.
Once I knew, I felt like the victim of the two. However, I could not completely
blame him. He did allude previously to having such imperfections, but I never
asked the hard questions that women should ask the men they date when
considering marriage. Pornography has swept the earth, and one can safely
assume that nearly all young men and some women have come in contact with it at
some time or another. With his secret divulged, he claimed that it no longer
burdened him; I believed him. Later I found pornography on his phone and
realized that he had lied to me. I couldn’t marry someone I did not trust.
Calling off a wedding engagement became the new “most difficult experience of
my life”, but it also strengthened me and helped me learn a very valuable
lesson: pornography kills love.
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