The Vow

What do you do when the person you love doesn't remember you?
What do you do when the memories of your love together haunts you, and not them?
Meet Leo.

What do you do when it seems as if life is complete with a happy family and an ex-fiance who still cares for you and this strange man keeps reminding you that you have a memory loss?
Meet Paige.

Paige and Leo are happily married.  Newly-weds who wrote their own vows and staged their wedding (illegally) inside the Art Institute of Chicago.  Then the car accident.

I did spot the cover at Target.
It looked like another romantic chick flick.

It has all the sweet moments.
I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.  - Paige

And doesn't shirk the hard moments.
How do you look at the woman you love, and tell yourself that its time to walk away?  - Leo

Amazingly, the true life story is even more precious.
After a whirlwind romance and a marriage of ten weeks, Kim and Krickett suffered a tragic car accident.  Krickett had less than one percent of survival.  She survived but could not recall him at all.  With advice from a therapist, Kim knew it was time to make her fall in love with him again.


And he did.
Did she have any feelings for him?
The movie makes us think yes.

Krickett is bluntly honest.
She had no feelings for him, as she honestly admits in the Today's interview. 
Yet, it was a choice that she made and she wanted to honor it.

Eighteen years and two children later, they are both proud of their choice.

Would we proud of our choices?


ps.  Movie highly recommended.
ps2.  And following the movie, the interview on the Today show.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46367191/ns/today-celebrates_valentines_day/t/real-life-vow-couple-you-do-right-thing/#.T7KmOIGIjAk
ps3.  And what about the Christian aspect?  Read on:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/16/real-life-couple-from-vow-says-it-would-have-been-nice-to-see-christian/
ps4.  Photo credit:  thefocusedfilmographer.com

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