During her relationship and marriage, Anna Kloots made the same mistake many of us do: ignoring all the red flags emerging in the relationship and continuing to plow forward, either out of infatuation or a misplaced sense of obligation. It was her first serious relationship, she explained, so she didn’t know any better.
“I was 19 when I met my ex-husband, and in so many ways, I was still completely a kid,” she said. “I wasn’t fully aware yet of how important some of the things were to me that I ended up very willingly trading away to please someone else or to fit in with someone else’s lifestyle. We do this in relationships, especially our first couple relationships, our young relationships.”
She added that the excitement of a new romance made it easy to lose touch with her own values and priorities. “I was so inebriated with this person I had met that I was willing to be what he wanted in someone more than what I knew I needed to be, to be me.”
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