When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

her until her legs gave out,” I told him, my voice shaking but my hands steady on her shoulder. “I promised ‘in sickness and in health.’ I’m not breaching that contract today.”

People think marriage is the fireworks on the Fourth of July.

It isn’t.

Marriage is the Tuesday in 1982 when the transmission blew on our only car, the baby had an ear infection,continue reading …