“But I’ve been acting for ten years like you were the one who wasn’t allowed to leave.
“If I asked you to get married, what would you answer?”
A few days ago, I probably would have been crying with happiness.
“I don’t want you to marry me just because you saw two suitcases and got scared.
We don’t have to get to the altar soon.
We need to ask ourselves if we still have a relationship that deserves this step.
Things came out that we had never talked about. Mihai’s parents had a painful divorce. For years he associated marriage with the loss of freedom and lawsuits.
But instead of telling me, he had always made excuses:
I, in turn, accepted every delay out of fear of finding out the answer I would have received if I had insisted. The difference was that, on the evening of our anniversary, Mihai had turned everything into a joke.
