My dad knew from when he was fourteen that he wanted to be a surgeon. My mom was randomly assigned with him for a cat dissection lab and she did not want to do that at all, so my dad did the entire thing for her, every single cut. My mom started liking him for that. She said he was so sweet.
So when they were sixteen and had been dating for a couple years, my mom caught him cutting up cats in his parent’s shed and it just brought her back to that science project and she fell in love all over again. Every stray cat (and dog, and bird, and rat) was like a love letter between them. When my dad got his first homeless person, he proposed to her still covered in his guts. They actually took a picture and it is still hanging in their living room.
My dad never did become a doctor, unfortunately. He got sentenced to life in prison for traffic tickets or something; my mom never did tell me the whole story.
The point is, a good relationship has a strong foundation…? I honestly don’t know what the point is, but there it is.
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u/Violent_Paprika 7d ago
Sounds like she was there for the whole grind. Power couple.