As a child, I believed when two people got married, they found what people call “true love”. These people who found this never ending love got married. After marriage, they only had eyes for their significant other. Marriage meant you had someone who was reliable no matter what was going on in your life. Marriage meant teamwork; unfailing, never ending love. I was in 8th grade when I started to discover otherwise. People do not always marry for love. I went to a very small private school. Often they have not had enough teachers for all the classes. Rotating substitute teachers had been a normal thing. Our history class often been on rotation. Half way through the semester we finally received a full time teacher. When he walked in the room
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He was my teacher; a young youth pastor and newly married. I was naive and believed in what I saw in the movies. They were married, which meant they were madly in love. A twenty-seven year old man being attracted to a fourteen year old girl would have never crossed my innocent mind. I told him about how my dad left a couple years ago and being a daddy’s girl made it that much harder. I felt he was stepping into my dad’s shoes. He said he always wanted children, though his wife did not. As time passed, he helped me grasp why History was important to understand for our future to be successful. In volleyball I had learned to move with the ball and became a killer hitter. All from the one on one time over the past year. Our relationship was not what I thought it …show more content…
Such a crazy thought that some people get married because of guilt. While being married they can start to fall in love with someone they can never be with. As a child, all of this terrified me. Learning that it is possible to fall out of love, or even fall for someone else while you are indeed married to another. Makes you question more than just marriage. He was like a father to me but was truly in love. How can you ever truly trust anyone but yourself. Something that now I see happens very frequently in life, has changed mine forever. Nothing is ever as it seems to
He was my teacher; a young youth pastor and newly married. I was naive and believed in what I saw in the movies. They were married, which meant they were madly in love. A twenty-seven year old man being attracted to a fourteen year old girl would have never crossed my innocent mind. I told him about how my dad left a couple years ago and being a daddy’s girl made it that much harder. I felt he was stepping into my dad’s shoes. He said he always wanted children, though his wife did not. As time passed, he helped me grasp why History was important to understand for our future to be successful. In volleyball I had learned to move with the ball and became a killer hitter. All from the one on one time over the past year. Our relationship was not what I thought it …show more content…
Such a crazy thought that some people get married because of guilt. While being married they can start to fall in love with someone they can never be with. As a child, all of this terrified me. Learning that it is possible to fall out of love, or even fall for someone else while you are indeed married to another. Makes you question more than just marriage. He was like a father to me but was truly in love. How can you ever truly trust anyone but yourself. Something that now I see happens very frequently in life, has changed mine forever. Nothing is ever as it seems to