A friend recently came across this picture of Terry in our second year of marriage. He doesn't look too happy!
We had just moved from Montreal to Toronto so that Terry could continue post-graduate studies. We missed our community of friends back home. To make matters worse, the program he had enrolled in wasn't what he had hoped it would be.
Had he made a mistake?!
It was definitely a stressful time for us both!
But (as a singer I admire says): We don't learn from our successes. We learn from our failures... We need to talk more about the benefits of failure. (Ed Sheeran)
From my own experience, I'd add that times of sadness can be great motivators for change... life changing!
That year of study that had started out so disappointingly ended up being an important educational step for Terry - one he's now glad he had.
But first we both had to struggle through difficult times.
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