Sister here! It has happened to a friend. She decided last year that she was going to get married this year. She said that God had given her visions and had ordained that she marry. Well, a mutual friend (who had a long distance relationship at the time, an engagement) was her first target. It didn't work out because he went on the road. Then she met a much younger man. How much younger? Let's say less that 20 but more than 15 years younger. And out of a rehab when she herself has never had an addiction. After several months of dating she determined that this was the man who God had planned for her. But her siblings objected to the man and the speed of the engagement. For her the engagement meant that it was OK to have sex.
Fast forward to about a month ago when she announced that another year had gone by and for sure the two of them were getting married. ON VALENTINE'S DAY. Considering that they had broken up only recently when she discovered that he had broken his sobriety, I was shocked.
But you want to be happy for someone else when they find LOVE right? It turned out that trying to find a minister and a place to hold the wedding at the last minute is near impossible, because VALENTINES DAY is a POPULAR DAY to be married! And it turned out that his drinking, that break in sobriety, was not a one time mess up but the start of a lot of partying, particularily as the wedding day got closer. Let's face it. He can't face life without a drink. Even the prospect of marrying her was not cheering enough.
So the wedding is cancelled. She's probably smart not to go forward with this wedding, or this relationship, and I feel for her, because she is laying in bed crying and depressed!
But this is what happens when you are DESPERATE to be married and you make the very next person who comes into your life MR or MRS RIGHT!
Sister
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