– Well, my daughter, don’t,” the mother was frightened. – Where to put it off, what else to wait for. We bought a dress.
– Better to get married one more time than not to get married at all! – Fifteen years ago, Lisa’s mother, Maria, used to say, diligently preparing for her daughter’s wedding.
The groom, to be honest, was not at all unimportant: the kind of guy who liked to party and drink. “Clearly not for family life!” – Lisa’s girlfriends whispered knowingly. But she didn’t have anything else. Although most of her former classmates were already married with children in their arms. It was a bit uncomfortable to sit around as a girl. Still, Lisa was getting married without much enthusiasm. She wasn’t sure she had made the right choice at all.
– Maybe I shouldn’t? – hesitantly she asked her mother. – Maybe it’s better to cancel the wedding? Or at least postpone? Wait?
– Well, how, my daughter, do not? – She was frightened. – What is there to postpone, what else is there to wait for? All bought! Cafe ordered. People have been invited, Grandma has already bought train tickets – what now, turn them in or what? How can you cancel something now, what are you doing? Everything is ready! Yes, you do not worry, it’s all the brides before the wedding so. Well, in the end, you’ll get a divorce, you’ll think it over. This isn’t the Stone Age! At least they won’t say no one’s getting married…
Maria sincerely wished her daughter happiness. Of course, she could not help but see that the future son-in-law – a man “not the one. But the prince on a white horse, she thought, you can wait your whole life and not wait. No one is perfect anyway.
– Marriage is a lottery! – Maria said. – You never know what will happen and how it will be…
“Experienced” girlfriends just sighed: – Some kind of strange marriage. For love? – No! Married by marriage? – Doesn’t sound like it either. Calculated? – Ridiculous… It’s not a plan! The guy’s got nothing. Oh, well, it’s her life. It’s good that we can break up at any time. … I hadn’t seen Lisa in years, and I only recently heard about her life.
She is married, still to the same man, and lives just fine. They have two daughters, smart and beautiful girls. Her husband is a businessman who does not drink a drop of alcohol and is very successful and wealthy even by the standards of the capital. According to her mutual friends, Lisa and her husband live their lives right in tune with one another.
– Ideal families do exist! – sigh, they told me about them. – Her husband is just great. She was so lucky! Where did she find such a diamond? Lisa and her husband moved from a small town to the next town, they also moved Maria, who loves her grandchildren, and her mother-in-law, it seems, did not leave her either. Everyone in the new place has spacious apartments, there is a country cottage, Lisa drives a new foreign car. The younger daughter has a nanny, the older one has a gymnasium, and the housekeeper works at home.
Lisa does not work, a couple or three times a week does volunteer work at a charitable foundation – for the soul, as she says, so as not to sour at home. She has complete confidence in her husband and he gives her as much money as she asks for, for the household, for the children and for nothing. Two or three times a year the family goes on a trip. They have already traveled to many countries.
Marriage is a lottery, and here it is just a matter of luck, it is almost impossible to predict how life with this man? Sometimes people seem to take everything into account, foresee everything, and divorce after a couple of years. And sometimes such “strange” marriages live on, no matter what.
