My wife’s younger sister got a divorce and it’s the best thing that ever happened to our marriage. Let me explain…

Divorce is the most difficult thing any couple can go through. It’s hard. It breaks not only the hearts of the couples involved. Everyone invested in the marriage gets their hearts broken. I’m happy that my wife’s sister got a divorce, no. But like a twisted symphony, their divorce has become the best thing that happened to our marriage.

When my wife’s sister’s husband decided to leave the marriage, my wife being the elder sister got involved, trying to make things work. She spent hours talking to the man, trying to get him to change his mind. She spoke to both of them in the presence of their respective parents but the man was determined to walk away and he did.

Since that experience, my wife has become a changed person, totally different from the woman I used to know four or five years ago.

Currently, she apologizes for things previously she wouldn’t apologize for. I didn’t hear, “I’m sorry” from my wife since marriage until recently. She’ll hurt me and later blame me for acting hurt. She’ll call me a woman for showing emotions after she had hurt me. But today, before I complain, she looks into my eyes and says, “Forgive me. I didn’t act well.”

She was the kind of woman who’d choose the floor over the bed because she didn’t want me to ‘worry’ her while she was asleep. She’d sleep in the hall, kids’ room, everywhere just to avoid intimacy. She was always tired. Today, she is the one who initiates sex and tells me, “Wake me up at dawn and let’s do it again.”

She serves my good and decorates it as if it is meant for a king. She’ll sit next to me, talk to me while I eat. She’ll ask about work and even ask about my colleagues. All of a sudden, she’s interested in the things that have to do with my life and my job. It didn’t happen a year ago.

I asked her, “What happened? Who did you see? You’re doing new things around here. Is this the last water you give to the fowl before you slaughter it?”

I Saw The Red Flags But I Ignored Them Until I Paid The Price

She laughed. She admitted that sitting through the divorce process of her sister had changed her a lot. Everything the man stood on to divorce her sister were things she thought were little things until she realized they were enough to cause a divorce. She thanked me for not making those things an issue. Today, she has become the kind of woman I dreamt about when I married her.

Unfortunately, it had to take her sister’s divorce to get here but we are here and all I feel is happy and grateful to the woman she has become.

—Sir Marcus

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