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[quote=Anonymous]In a word, no.  I focus on my own journey and ignore the background noise.  You are running your own race with your own husband, who you are committed to.

There is so much “score keeping” on this website and obviously in a lot of people’s lives: your looks, your HHI, your zip code, your marriage, and how “smart” you were to be able to accomplish XYZ.

In reality, we have so little control.  Life is such a crap shoot.  I think regarding marriage in particular so many people can’t even assess how THEIR OWN marriage is going.  There are SO MANY women who post on this very forum how “blissful” their marriage was until year X when she discovered DH was cheating.  Those women were literally “lucky” in their own minds one day and exceptionally unlucky the next day.  They also missed whatever signals they were getting that there was trouble in paradise.

SIL is a gorgeous woman who married a wonderful man who loves her, but they suffered infertility and then he got MS and is slowly dying.  You could have been jealous of her “luck” one day and feel horrible pity for her 5 years later.  That is real life.  There are so many struggles, and you don’t know about the struggles on the road ahead of you.  Run your own race![/quote]

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