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Article: My rookie year: what made me think that I--a driven career hound--would make a good wife?(LOVE/SEX)
- Article from:
- Marie Claire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
- Author:
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JUST EIGHT HOURS into my marriage and I was already faking it. Debilitated by exhaustion, I peeled off my wedding dress and mustered the energy to change into a wickedly uncomfortable, laughably over-the-top lingerie set that had me spilling out of every seam. This is what new wives are supposed to do, right? Never mind that, in that moment, I had zero desire to start fulfilling wifely obligations.
That should have been my first clue that my artfully constructed notion of marriage was short a few planks. While I anticipated inevitable snags--my husband, Ofer, is careful with money, I'm a spendthrift--I did not foresee the tectonic ...