2008年2月22日星期五

What happened yesterday has set me into deep thinking. Can the promises of eternal care and tolerance, not to mention love, made during marriage really last? Will people, even the one carefully chosen as a life partner, change faces and become someone that you never thought existed? My neighbour next door, a young married lady, came begging for help last night at around 11+pm. She brought her two children to our house and requested my mum to make a police report because 'her husband has gone crazy'. What took place later was what I previously thought to be third class drama plots. The police came by swiftly (my mum did not call the police, the lady herself made the phone call later) and took the statement of all the people involved. it was only till the next day that I discovered through my mother that the husband was actually trying to strangle the wife, in front of the eyes of their two young children, aged 7 and 4. When he failed to do so, he wanted to push her down their 13storeys high apartment. A lucky thing in the whole event of misfortune was probably that the mother and brother of the wife was at home. Had the whole 'drama' been shifted to take place at the married coupe's own apartment in Sengkang, the consequences will definitely be more dire. wIt is truly saddening that love can turn into such intense hatred that a man will actually attempt to murder the women that he exchanged vows with. It is even more heartwrenching for the women to both lose the man that promised to shower her with eternal love and at the same time, see a murderer in the eyes of the man who longer feels affection towards her. The same goes for the two young children who cried so loudly the last night. This is the kind of childhood trauma that they will find it very hard to shake off later. After what has happened, it probably takes more than a miracle for the couple to not get a divorce. Whatever is the reason for the husband to want to actually kill the wife is what we cannot ascertain. Although my mum picked up bits and pieces from the mother of the wife, there may be biased views in what the mother has said. marriage is a two-way thing, I feel that both the husband and wife share the responsibility for the failed marriage. the most innocent victims in the whole thing would well be the children. Some say time washes away all wounds. Young as they might be, I'll say it'll take more than time to wash away memories of their father trying to murder their mother.

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