People are always shocked that I’m married when they meet me. Like jaw dropping, please excuse me while I pick my mouth up off the floor, shocked. After all, I’m 24 years old, I’m in graduate school, and I’m working at a start up. My husband is a full-time student in a four year professional optometrist program. And we’re both seemingly a little self-absorbed with our careers.

I spent an entire year focusing on everything else. For a year I neglected my marriage, thinking that I could “have it all” without putting much work into it.

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5 Jan, 2008  |  Written by Monica O'Brien  |  under Newlywed

I basically met my husband at a frat party. Technically we met 6 months before through a service organization we were both members of, but we didn’t become friends until…

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