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Just wanted to share some thoughts about my recent breakup.

I recently dated a girl who at one point I thought I was going to marry. We got along really well, and I enjoyed being in her presence. We dated for about a year and a half.

She was career oriented and didn't want to get married, have kids, or in the off chance we had kids, take care of them. It was all about the career, and yet, she had no real reason why she wanted her job. She was placing it above me, but when asked, couldn't explain why. It was always about her.
She came from a family background where the mother was a career oriented power woman who led the family, and a father who was for all intensive purposes a potato sack. He was very quiet, never stood up for anything, and his wife and daughters didn't really respect him.
I realized that if I continued dating her, I would undergo one of two paths. Either I would be divorced, marrying a girl who would never agree with me, and I would have to completely abandon all of the things I wanted in marriage (loving, supportive wife, kids, no competition between us, etc.), or I was going to end up like her father, a lifeless, husk of a man.

I broke up with her and cut all contact, and I feel at peace about that. I'm sorry to have hurt her, but I know it was for the best.

I often wonder what will happen to my ex. I foresee her either being childless and miserable, or with a whipped husband and miserable.
I thank God every day that I walked away from her.

Thanks for reading my thoughts.