No, it really isn't. It seems that way to you because you stopped growing in that way before you could encompass it.
Where is the science to back up your idea that she could stop growing before she could encompass an idea? What you wrote did read cold, and I'm sure a majority of people polled on the street would agree it read cold.
So what I'd be likely to say is that she has made me happier. I wouldn't want to have my life without her. It would be lessened by her absence.
Then you
need her. She completes you. Ask her if she agrees with me? Genesis 2:18-2:24 agrees with me.
You
need Jack, and needed Jack before you had Jack. Without him you have no lineage, and a diminished impact on the future, if any.
Never marry a person from need.
You needed to be married and needed a wife because you needed to have children. Can you refute that claim?
That's something in you that you need to deal with.
She has a need to deal with her need to need and be needed? Interesting. How do you suggest she deal with her need for me?
Marry from love, which is a desire to give. It's an abundance, not a need.
If there is a giver, there is a receiver. You need to be needed, need to be loved. Why deny what is obvious?
...it wasn't my goal to spend my life alone. I knew life could be improved by sharing it and it was.
Hence you had a need.
You do sound young. It might be because you still are or because that's how you patterned when you truncated the learning curve.
I'm really interested in the seeing the science to support this idea you've brought up a couple of times now. How is she "patterned" and how is the learning curve "truncated" exactly? You see this patterning and truncating a symptom of having married me when she was eighteen? I'm skeptical.
My wife's mother married young like you and I notice that in some ways she seems much younger than her years.
Why not throw a jab in at the mother-in-law. :chuckle:
That's a read in. It suits your narrative. It isn't necessarily so.
It is necessarily so because God opens and closes the womb, according to scripture.
Maybe in your immaturity you asked for something you would have been better off without that early but it worked out anyway. Maybe God did what he could and you were fortunate beyond that. Maybe the thought was, well, better she do what she should wait for than burn.
God gave her seven children and a happy marriage. I think God knew what He was doing.
Emotional justifications and slight to sustain what reason won't isn't a sign of reason or maturity, young lady.
Listen, young man, she is a grown woman in her thirties raising seven children and doing an excellent job. People go out of their way to compliment her on her child-rearing because they can see the results. She far surpasses you in child-birthing and child-rearing experience and knowledge. You couldn't do her job ever, and you couldn't afford to pay someone to do her job.