These Two Friends Agreed To Get Married At 30, But What Ended Up Happening Will Break Your Heart

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Toa Heftiba
Toa Heftiba

A comment thread on the internet was talking about whether anybody actually went through with any of those “marriage pacts” that we joke about so often.

You know the ones: where you and a mutual friend joke that, “Oh if we are still single at 40-years-old, we’ll get married!!!”

As it turns out, there was someone who did have an experience with a marriage pact. And it was a heartbreaking one:

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Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.