Answered by M & C 4-ever from USA | Mar. 26, 2020 08:41
There is hope. but it will take effort, time and hard choices. My husband is 9yrs my senior, we have been married 45 years, some happy, some not. We survived because we loved each other, even tough at times, we hated each other, or more precisely, hated what was said, or what the other did or did not do. Realizing the difference is the first step, then either talking about it (not a forced, lets sit down we have to talk), but casually in conversations that come about naturally, (but even then, feelings were hurt, tempers flared and sometimes a lot of tears and "loud" discussions)... sometimes you have to walk through the fire to grow... sometimes one of you has to be the forgiver, the giver-in, and the forgetter. We got through it all because whenever things got really bad, we remembered "what" made us fall in love, "why" we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, and "how" we felt that first time we knew we were meant to be together... that and separate bathrooms.