Status Updates From Before I Do

“… because if you're going to commit to anything in this life, shouldn't it be love?”

“Seriously though, why would anyone get married in this day and age?

Because it's the biggest commitment you can make to one another. It's a declaration to the world that this is your person, the one you love, body and soul. It's saying that no matter what life throws at you both, you are going to be there, holding each other's hand every step of the way.“

“Audrey felt stuck. Everyone else was going places, and she was going nowhere.”


HUHUHUHU FEELS

“Some days she loved the variety of her life – she was in no rush to be settled and didn’t feel the need to commit to any one thing. But on other days she felt as though everyone else was on this life train that she’d forgotten to buy a ticket for.”



FEELS. EXACTLY. THE. SAME.

“Sometimes life feels like a hamster wheel. You get caught up in the practicalities of existence and all the joy gets pushed aside in favour of necessity. Sometimes you just need to jump off the wheel.”

“I don’t want to wake up in fifty years with any regrets. I think as soon as you stop wanting to learn, explore, change things, that’s when you get old.”

“… the people who really love you won’t stop just because you get old.”

“… there was one thing Audrey had promised herself from a young age, it was that when it came to love, she would not be anything like her mother.”

This has been my mother’s advice since then. Find a man who loves you MORE than you love him.

My daddy may be a good father, but he isn’t a good husband.

“Committing to someone for the rest of her life was a huge step. Promising not to screw up, forever, was undeniably daunting.”

“Fake it until you make it.”

“Look, it’s human nature to wonder what might have been. It doesn’t mean he’s the person you were supposed to be with.”

“Whatever had happened in the past needed to stay in the past – weddings were about the future.”