Our life together has not been easy. When we returned home from our honeymoon a storm cloud descended upon us. On her first day back to work at a big city hospital my partner was informed the hospital was closing. She would be with out a job. This was extremely traumatic for her since she had a very strong work ethic and had never been with out a job
One month after our ceremony I survived a very bad car accident and shattered the head of my femur. I spent 5 weeks in the hospital and was told I would never walk again. I was totally incapacitated for several months. For the next year I slept in the living room and later the dining room of our two story house. I struggled and worked to regain my ability to walk.
It was very hard on my partner as she nursed people at the hospital every day and then had to come home to nurse me. I feared she would leave me since it was so much work and she was never in a good mood. But we persevered and the tide began to turn.
I learned to walk and my partner got a lucrative job in a well-known private practice of physicians. And even more of a miracle is that we stayed together. There were times when all that kept us together was that tiny little ceremony and life pledge. But we learned an important lesson about love. It wasn’t the romantic feelings and wistful times, although those are certainly needed and enjoyed. True love is staying there when it is dark and life is a struggle. This is a far closer bond then some piece of paper that says we are legally married.
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