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It is an exciting thing to get engaged or to get married and it's full of

possibilities but sometimes we get more than we bargained for or less than we bargain for we get blindsided. less than we bargained for.

We get blindsided.

Greg, as a counselor, I'm sure you see some younger couples who are dealing with,

what just happened?

Yeah, we had some good friends that got married and on their honeymoon,

his father passed away.

So not only did they obviously have to cut their honeymoon short,

but then they had to adjust to a new normal and part of that was they both, this

newlywed couple felt called to move in to his mom's house to really be there for that first year to take care of her because it just devastated her.

So you just, you never know what's going to happen and we have to learn how to adjust to life as it's constantly changing.

So when you say yes, you're saying yes to a world of unknowns, but you're saying yes

with you, I'll go into that world well here's more from Lucille

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