What would you do...
By OURDEW
@OURDEW (4809)
United States
5 responses
@CaroleeKaufold (1853)
• United States
16 Apr 07
I would stay with him, the vows say in sickness and in health, Right?
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
16 Apr 07
If I really loved the man, I would not back out. They are the same person and things can be worked out. They can still have a good life and are worthy of having someone love them. It is a lot of work on both sides, but if I loved him we would work it out.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
16 Apr 07
I'm not sure how to answer this question.
At first my thought was to write that I would certainly go through with the marriage.
But thinking about it, I find it a bit more complex than just saying I would do it.
I think it would be very important to really think about it carefully. Because it's really nice to go ahead with the marriage but it depends on how the rest of our life would be, and how much it would affect our habits, our way of living etc.
I would have to think on how important some things are for me and if I could live without them.
I would have to think about how we would be able to have a job and earn our living.
I would have to think about many things before deciding because agreeing to go ahead with the wedding just to be a good person and then feel bad in that marriage and making my husband miserable in the process wouldn't accomplish anything.
So, to answer your question... I don' t really know what I would do. It would depend on my questions and my answers to them.
I can tell you that at this moment, if my husband became a paraplegic, it certainly wouldn't make me leave him. Mind you I've been married for over 20 years and we did have a wonderful life so far. We did many things together and that kind of accident wouldn't be able to erase them.
But that is different than starting a new life with someone that is paraplegic from the beginning.
That said, I can see myself meeting a paraplegic man , fall in love with him and marry him. But this is because I had decided I wanted to and knew about the paraplegia before hand. It was something that I would have planned keeping his situation on mind, not the other way around.