Love in Sickness Is Alive Today!
Dr.
Sherman N. Miller
Inner City
Conservative Journal
Everyone is excited
at a wedding watching two people profess to the world their love for and
commitment to each other in sickness and health for a lifetime. However,
nature will test this vow with the onset of the diseases of aging
regardless of one’s wealth or social status.
One
approach to handling the spousal health deterioration dilemma is to
enter into a secret de facto polygamous relationship replete with
children. This polygamy may satisfy your missing sexual needs in the
marriage as the Grim Reaper slowly takes the life force from your
spouse. Let us call this the John Edward’s Marital Vow.
Yet US mainstream
monogamous beliefs hold that any form of polygamy is bad. It is illegal
if your polygamous arrangement reaches the bigamy level.
Thus, the Edward’s marital vow
may turn your polygamous relationship into a media circus that gets you
vilified internationally on the Internet for breaking the sacred oath to
love in sickness.
It is gratifying to
see some one sharing a mindset running counterpoised to the Edward’s
marital vow modus operandi. I was chatting with this lady who appeared
to be in her early fifties. Her hair was gray at the roots but a very
dark brown suggesting that she was hiding her true age. She had a
troubled smiled as though she had a real message that she wished to
share.
Our conversation
turned to men’s sicknesses in a marriage. She poured forth that her
husband had had a mild stroke and heart attack and he has diabetes, got
stints, and suffers neuropathy.
I asked, how old was
her husband?
She replied, “He is
57.”
I was dumbfounded by
her revelation. She sensed my befuddlement for I feared she hopelessly
was watching as the Grim Reaper was stealing her spouse. Her face
radiated with joy as she said, “He is alive!”
As I tumbled this
lady’s story over in my mind, it was clear that love in sickness portion
of the marital vow is alive today. Yet
Mother Nature is unforgiving, so it must be awful to confront the
diseases of aging without a spouse, lover or children on hand to offer
you support in your time of need. Are you prepared for the health
ravages of Father Time?
A high school buddy
summed up the aging process, “Getting old is not for the faint of
heart!”
