“I need clarity before I make a lifelong commitment. I want us to get a fertility evaluation together. My family members have struggled with these issues. Their difficulties affected their marriage deeply. I don’t want us to begin our life together without understanding where we stand.”
She took a step back, not out of blame, but out of caution—out of wanting a future built on honesty.
I couldn’t blame her. I couldn’t blame Van. The situation was the result of choices I had made—choices fueled by pride, by convenience, and by an unwillingness to listen to the people who cared for me.
Standing there in the middle of my own wedding, I finally understood something important: when we move through life thinking only of what benefits us, we may eventually find ourselves alone, holding the consequences of our own actions.
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