A woman's marriage ended because she never voiced disagreements, afraid of her husband's reaction. She kept silent to keep things smooth, but that silence killed the relationship. She learned that suppressing your voice in an intimate partnership destroys what you're trying to protect.
my marriage, I thought that to be a good partner meant to not voice disagreements, right? That everything had to be okay and I had to smooth everything over and, you know, all of those things. And when you think about it, I was fearful of how he would react and that maybe that would break us up. And what broke us up was the fact that I didn't speak up. So not owning my voice is actually what broke the relationship.
