Greatest Love Story Ever

I am by no means an expert of love and marriage. I do know that love should be unconditional and marriages should have conditions. But I am not here to tell you what defines true love or marriage.

About a decade ago one lazy afternoon, I was watching Jerry Springer show where couples with hidden issues of insidious nature come in and attack each other for the viewer’s entertainment. One such show was about a guy who started to have a mistress just about the time he got married to his wife. He brought both the ladies up and they both fought with each other screaming and yelling about how the other person was not right for this man and they were the correct partner for the man even though he is such a useless piece of junk. After 45 mins of this nuisance the guy tells both the women he is leaving both of them for another man. And now both the women are tired of him and they are ready to walk away from him.

The second show was about a man and woman who were living in the country. The man had a secret and he wanted the wife to know about it. He had been having relationship with someone else for a while and he wanted the wife to know about it. The wife was curious to know the person he was in relationship with. The man then brought out a cow dressed as a bride. The man was all over the cow, kissing and hugging. Then Jerry Springer asked the wife what she is going to do? Has she had enough of him? Is she ready to leave him?

The woman answered “<strong>NO</strong>”. Her reason was – her husband needed help. What he did was disgusting, and the reason for his doings is, he is sick. That was the moment I understood the true definition of love and marriage. She could have got up and walked away and everyone would have supported her decision. She chose to stay because her man needed help. She knew she won’t have a good life after all, but she stayed. Hats off to her!!

The Hollywood romance is beautiful and I want to so badly too. But what the woman did for her husband is true love, real love. I don’t know how many of us can do it?