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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the OP and I've seen some questions on the thread about what settled means or questioning whether someone has settled if they married they best match they could get. I deliberately put it in quotations because I'm skeptical of how people use the term. But when I wrote it I meant that you married someone you don't deeply love but you married because you thought you were running out of time to have children. Society would say you "settled" for less than a storybook romance. I'm just curious how many people have made a happy life in those circumstances and how many feel miserable because they don't have that deep love connection to get them through the hard times of raising young children.

Seems like a pretty equal number are saying a deep love connection isn't enough to get you through the hard times either, and I'm happy to see several posters say they've built a happy life with a spouse they didn't have a storybook love connection with.

Also I know DCUM is a place people to come to to vent because it's anonymous so people probably are going to be more negative here than their lives really are.[/quote]

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