BPOV
I guess now I was officially qualified to write a book on 'How to keep embarrassing yourself in front of your husband'!
Why did I have to tell him that I had stalked Angela's profile?
Why did I have to tell him about what my observations were from that picture?
He seemed so surprised and in disbelief to hear that! He said I was acting crazy, which I agreed too! I guess I needed to give him a chance to explain everything. I could decide later if I wanted to trust him or not!
"Dad died when I was sixteen... It was so shocking for me." he started, "Mom and Big Pa began to put all the pressure on me. I mean, they were under pressure, too. I can understand their situation now, but I was too young at that time to digest everything."
"I was under too much pressure. Everyone had too many expectation from me. I had actually forgotten how to live the life while trying to prove myself to everyone!" he said.
Actually I never gave a thought about how he must have felt when he lost his Dad at such a young age. It must have been so difficult for him!
"I met Angela when I was twenty four and we were together for two years."
Okay, here it comes. I was suddenly nervous. Did I even want to hear this part?
"She was so fearless and so... carefree. Whenever I was with her and her gang, I felt so relaxed! It's like I forgot about all the pressure, expectations, everything! It was like a form of escapism for me!"
"Mom didn't approve my relationship with her, and that made me pursue it even harder." he said, "I wanted to do something so badly to go against her. She was getting really angry and she did all she could do to break our relationship, which made me angrier like never before. I wanted to marry Angela at any cost to rebel against Mom and big Pa!"
"But at some point I realized that may be I was actually using Angela just to make a point to Mom! Angela was great, but we would never have made it work. She was not what I wanted from my life partner." he said. "May be Mom and big Pa saw it before me, but I don't know! I don't want to accept it!"
Oh?
"You're everything I want from my partner." he said, "You're a smart, intelligent, beautiful woman. You're someone who I know that I can always rely on any matter. You're someone I know who would always challenge me to make me a better person. You're someone who makes me really happy."
He might be exaggerating everything, but why was it making me emotional?
"I hate Mom for being all 'I told you so', but she's not wrong here!" he said, "You're perfect for me in every sense, and I don't want anything else."
He wasn't lying, right?