You know, I never really believed in marriage before I met my husband. I used to have a pessimistic outlook on relationships in general, thinking they were destined to fail at some point. And while I still partially believe that not all relationships are meant to last, I do have a different outlook on marriage now. You see, before I met him, I did not think of marriage as a partnership because that is definitely not what I saw growing up; one parent pulling all the weight and the other barely i…