Vows

               
 When you tie that knot you tie your lives together, inextricably and totally, in every sense of the word! Despite being dead earnest about the vows you take, you can't visualise the ways in which they are going to be tested in life! "I will be by your side, as your courage and strength", you vow as a young bride with stars in your eyes and a dreamy future panning out before you! You see Love and Romance. You see your  childhood game, Playing House, becoming a reality! Kids arriving! But Hospitals? Nooooooo, you don't know they exist in your charmed life, except perhaps the maternity ward! But one day you realise, you have to do even that! Be his courage and strength, when your own is doubtful! And you will probably be alone when you do that. The kid has flown the nest, the siblings have their own worries, the parents are gone and you sit in the hospital wondering, where did this come from?