Millions of people have said those seemingly simple words, “in sickness and in health“. The moment we speak those words, most of us are thinking about illness as a temporary, fleeting period of time. The kind of illness where you offered to stop and get soup and some medications from the store for your spouse. Those times in marriage where you take the kids out for the afternoon because your husband has a headache. It’s exactly what my 22-year-old self imagined, planned for and was prepared to do. What happens when something bigger happens? When everything in your world flips upside down and the illness you so easily spoke of more than 30 years ago changes everything about your marriage. How do you pivot, endure and continue to love, but in a different capacity?
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