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What I Hated About Being a Bride

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Sometimes I just think up these really attention-getting titles and hope to draw you in to a small piece of my heart and the lessons I have learned in my life.  Statistics:   A little less than 45% of all marriages end in divorce The average cost of a wedding is  $26,720 The average couple divorces after 8 years of marriage  A divorce happens in America every 36 seconds.  Jon proposed to me in August. I was looking forward to all of the bride-ish things. Showers, parties, parties, parties, friends, cake, etc. However, I was just slightly uncomfortable the whole time. Don't get me wrong, I had so much fun being celebrated by close friends and family!  But, shower after shower, I just felt an itch of weird. What was it about this that was just uncomfortable?  The wedding drew nearer, and I began to hear the words "what do you want for this?" "what do you want to do about this?" "You're the bride," "It's what the bri...