Mana: Before The Rise 231 Seven Year Itch 10

Her words stabbed him deep, and he felt his heart bleeding as he despairingly looked at his wife. She was right that he never actually, when they first met he perused her out of interest and then when they finally got married he could check off the block and then when they had children he honestly didn't think about it much, afterword. He came to the conclusion after today that he never really know his wife at all and in the end was manipulated by her because he didn't even bother to know in the first place.

And now what he was starring at was the true face of his wife, he looked at her cold eyes that seem him as nothing.

"But, enough about that" Rachel pulled out an envelope, it was a divorce contract. "The Children will be in your custody, and our separation won't cost you a Penny."

Lucas felt pressured looking at the flimsy piece of paper that could end a marriage.

"You should go, home Lucas." Rachel stood up, Lucas wasn't paying attention seemingly lost in thought as she walked out of the Café, she doesn't even think that he noticed her leaving while he was in a melancholy state.

Marriage, there are all types. But generally, it should be of equal partners.h.i.+p for it to even work. Most stories focus on unequal partners.h.i.+ps, like in harems or treatment of the female partner. However, when a pure equal relations.h.i.+p is achieved the story receives a good ending.

This is Rachel's judgement on her marriage and why it needed to end. Lucas is a man who like comfort, he chased after Rachel because she was his idea for a marriage partner, she was going to be a comfortable marriage partner. This resulted in an unequal partners.h.i.+p because he had already put expectations on her without knowing her.

The correct way to say this is that he judged her by her appearance before getting to now her. Presentable, looked Kind, and was something who gaze off a homey feeling.

Rejecting him at first, gave him the feeling of a tiger chasing to rabbit. He couldn't stop until he had it, something like this is fine when pursuing a relations.h.i.+p as long as there is a clear boundary of how you do it. Granted Lucas never pa.s.sed those boundaries, but he pursued her with clear misunderstanding of her character.

This is a sign of an unequal partners.h.i.+p.

When Lucas finally secured his partner he cooled down was satisfied and had enforced a standard for married life. Such as not being questioned by his wife of anything. Or here staying at home rather then working, or expecting total devotion from them without question.

This was all fine, Rachel didn't really care about that att.i.tude from him. She was more curious about being a stay at home mom and the experience. And she was wrong for that, that she acknowledges that, allowing Lucas to put her in stereotype that fit him.

Like when he took Ms. Tan requests over his wife and family.

Their s.e.x Life was also one-sided because of Lucas and him only thinking about his pleasure rather then hers. He believed her to be in pleasure with her under him the way he wanted. This made her frustrated because at him, but, a good s.e.x life is only needed for a relations.h.i.+p between two people who are in love.

That didn't apply to Lucas and Rachel herself who weren't in equal love. As a result, it only made in frustrated and nothing else.

But her complacency started to change after her daughter's birth, Lucas was excited with the birth of his two son, Although he was over-seas when Oliver was born, The names her boys had where given by Lucas. He was stubborn in their names.

Rachel was never good at Naming her children almost never being able to come to a decision. That's why she had always left it to her spouse or family members.

But, when it came to Audrey. He of course he looked excited, but there was a clear difference. Her name, he didn't care to name her, the name came from his mother instead.

This was where she began to worry and pay more attention, this type of thing she didn't want to rub off onto the children. And much to her terror it did. The treatment of a person because she is a women hits much close to home to her then anything else. You could see it is a part of her bottom line, just like her hair.

Something ingrained into her from her unfortunate human life as 'Rachel'.

So, Rachel went for an equal relations.h.i.+p with the 'idotic' man she called a husband. A Friends.h.i.+p, but, that started to not work so she went for a s.e.xual one. That didn't work either. So she tried for both, but, in trying for it she realized that even that might not work to correct the ideals implanted in her sons by their father.

She had begun doing clean ways that could help, and at first, they were working. However, they ended up returning right back due to Lucas. Her children value their father's opinion more then hers. They idolize him after all.

This fight continued, she tied to get close to Lucas to present an equal relations.h.i.+p in front of her children. While also keeping her children on the right path with the right ideals. But it wasn't working the normal way wasn't working.

In the end The Conclusion, Rachel thought of was to leave. To destroy the ideal life Lucas wanted so much, to ruin the home safety her kids felt by breaking their trust and making them hate her. To implant the ideal of hate toward a type of women, that would leave her family. She would this ruin them early in life then later when they understand more. Because if she left when they where older, their father's ideals of a women would have long been implanted in them. That she would have hated.

Lucas himself need to experience a wake-up call too, Divorce would have outraged him if done a normal route. So, instead it had to be done and it in a elaborate way. She had to slowly make him feel is marriage was in danger, to push him to want to have an actual relations.h.i.+p.

To wake-up the male instincts in him that made him chase her in the first place.

Rachel sat on the train, that is on its way to Waverley House, where the Main leads of this world are waiting. Lucas, and them but more so the main couple. Most of their martial problems come from that 'trash couple' , whenever they have problems Lucas would show up to solve them. It wasn't just yearly they would have problem it was monthly. Lucas would be on the phone for hours listening to the female lead cry because of another argument.

But how she deals with them will be up to the readers imagination.