Linda was having so much fun in china with Jeremy. It was like a dream come true being there with him. She loved Ava from the bottom of her heart , but having this time alone with Jer was really nice. She was exhausted after all of their activities today, once they were back in the hotel room, she couldn’t wait to just shower and crawl into bed next her love . She looked up at him from the chair she sat in to take her shoes off and shook her head playfully. “Honey, I was just joking around.” She half teased. Of course there was a little bit of truth to her wanting to marry him, she loved him. But at their age, marriage also wasn’t a necessity. @carpejren
He heard her but for his own peace of mind he wanted to make sure. "I just want to touch base about it. We live together and I'm sure at some point it might not be a joke because after a certain amount of time it's expected that things move forward." He was careful how he proceeded, "I love you and I'm in this with you, but I don't ever want to get married again." He knew he ran the risk of losing her if she needed to be married one day but he was hoping their commitment to each other would be enough.
She was comforted by the fact that he was ‘in it’ with her. But she also was a little bit saddened by the fact that he said ‘never’ when speaking about marriage. She understood that Ava’s mom was a piece of trash, to say the least, but would that really turn him off to marriage completely? “I love you , too. And I get that your past is a little …” she paused to think of the right words without sounding offensive. “Messy when it comes to relationships. I won’t force the idea on you, I care about you too much to lose you over something so trivial. But why are you so against the idea of marriage ?”
"I never wanted to get married. It was never something that interested me. I got married because she got pregnant and it was a disaster. I went against what I wanted to do what I thought what expected of me." He scratched an itch on his face and continued on, "the whole divorce process was enough to reinforce that I dont want to go through all that legality again."












