• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Of course he’s being figurative in his speech. He’s not literally saying you have to witness them going through each of those specific things, but suggesting you don’t really know a person well until you’ve been through difficulties and hardships with them. And that’s really true. As many young people find out the hard way when they marry young without that perspective.