Twenty and a Half and Married

We have been working up to it for five years and yet the day comes and I am terrified of the decision I am making.

Rushed to plan a wedding in one week -- make the dress -- meet with Dr Peterman -- write the marriage vows -- move permanently from the family home -- taking up the UNKNOWN!!!

Committed to the idea that Marriage is Forever, yet unfulfilled, controlled, by an Alien I hadn't anticipated. Too late! I've made my bed. I'll have to sleep in it.

Somehow we compromise, establish some joint goals, resolve our conceptual differences. Families are reluctantly merged even though frustrated by 'cultural' or 'social' differences in their approach to life structure and process.

Ultimately it doesn't work out.

Life moves on.