For the April, 2006 edition of
Glamour Magazine, Kristin Armstrong wrote, "What I Wish I Had Known About Marriage" which advises women to not "leave their true selves behind at the altar."
Quotes from the Article:
- "Perhaps we are all guilty of holding on too tightly to our own Cinderella stories, thinking that the glass slipper of the perfect marriage will conform to us uniquely. Engagement, like pregnancy, is a fleeting and hopeful time, and those who have gone before hesitate to disrupt this dream with a dose of reality."
- "Here is the truth as I see it: Marriage has the potential to erode the very fiber of your identity. If you aren't careful, it can tempt you to become a "yes woman" for the sake of salvaging your romantic dream. It can lure you into a pattern of pleasing that will turn you into someone you'll hardly recognize and probably won't like. I am warning you because I only wish someone had warned me."
- "But the beauty of a wife is not found in those things. The beauty of a wife is in her being, not in her doing."
- "If your husband asks what you think, tell him. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down."
