#2. NEXT, YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME THE COMMITMENT-PHOBIA.
Things progress, but like a lot of us guys, Jeff becomes frightened by the thought of marriage and a life-long commitment. In his words, “You begin to wonder: Is this really the one? What if I fall out of love? What if another woman comes along that I love more?”
I felt cornered, not by Sue but by myself. I couldn’t bear to let the love of my life slip through my fingers, but at the same time I was afraid of declaring: This is the one! To make a long story short, I finally got the courage to ask Sue to marry me, with the secret caveat that I could always get a divorce.
Bridges eventually reaches one of those “Oh no, what have I done?” states of mind during their first year of marriage. Sue picks up on it and offers to annul the marriage if he doesn’t want it. Bridges response is “No, no.” In his words, it takes a couple of years but “I finally got with the program.”
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