Nana Biography

When we got home, there was dead silence. He gave me the silent treatment. Immediately, I just froze. I knew something terrible was wrong and tried to analyze it, and finally, I confronted him, and I said, “you have to tell me what’s happened, because I can’t live this way. “ And he said, “well, you ought to know “one of those stupid arguments. Then I cried, and we had a scene, and finally, I realized that he was terribly jealous. And so then I told him that was totally idiotic and what kind of girls had he taken out before that he would be jealous of them doing that. But I found out that I had to handle him very carefully, because we had terrible fights during our first year. What was interesting was with my husband we never had a word, a fight, in our lives, and with John it was every few days something awful. What happened, yet in the meantime we’d make up and things were great when we didn’t have these fights. And I thought, oh, this is going to be. This is terrible. 

And all I can say is, suddenly it stopped, and then over the years it had just and we never, and I can say that for the past five years years, just never had any problems so, we’ve learned to… he’s matured and so I’ve matured and we’ve grown into a very good relationship. I can’t imagine a better relationship with a man. This is really nice. And the children know it, and I think they’re pleased. The first part of it was tough on the kids. One child was 10, one was nine, and one child was five, I think. And the 10-year-old resented John terribly. It was almost a year before John.

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