Monday, March 19, 2007

ScenarioS (with a capital S)

Two people are in love and happily they get engaged. Two months after the engagement, the guy starts experiencing weird symptoms, he goes to see a doctor. The guy never complained from anything before. He was as fit as a horse. After a few tests are done, they find out he has cancer.

Why am I talking about this? Because this is what's happened to a friend of mine. Now, if you were that guy's fiancee, what would you do? And mind you I'm not saying he has anything, it's CANCER. Of course, he's undergoing treatment now, but still...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? And well before you rush into an answer like "Of course I would stand by him", you have to SWEAR (cos yeah I don't buy people easily, sorry) that whatever you write is truly what you would do whatever that may be.

And if you are a guy, if that person was your fiancee, what would you do?

I'll tell you what that guy's fiancee did next time and a couple of other stories...

12 comments:

Mak said...

Ouch. That's so bad. And to be honest I've no clue what i would do if I were him. If I loved her I would want her to stay with me but I wouldn't want to be so selfish. What a dilemma. I think the right thing to do is to let her choose without trying to influence her opinion in any way. But I doubt i would do that.

Anonymous said...

Hmm, I remember watching something like this on TV. The difference though, the guy kept it a secret, and a year after they got married, he died.

What would I do? I would support him wholeheartedly, I honestly would.

I hope your friend is getting better.

Anonymous said...

Mak: I would probably do the same.

Sou: I'll take your word for it :)

And yes, he's better :-)

Nora said...

That is tough.. the situation and the question.
I'm glad to hear that your friend is ok...

Well, I guess it depends on how in love with him I was.
If I was really in love with him I would definitely stay with him. I would not be able to leave him to face this alone... I would want to be with him and help him get through this.
I doubt that I would ever marry someone that I was not completely head over heels in love with... but if did happen then I am not sure what I would do. I think that once I say yes to marriage that the commitment begins. I would most likely honor and respect my commitment and I think I would stay with him. I am not sure if I would be with him because of a sense of duty more than me wanting to be with him though...
So, I guess in both situation I would stay with him. The difference being in the reason why I was there.
Ouch, I just disappointed myself...
Honestly sucks sometimes!!

Italiano said...

Again, Nora, I'm more than impressed. And no, that wasn't disappointing at all.

bb_aisha said...

id stay with him.im the type of person who doesnt commit easily,so wen i do,its real.in a situatn like this,id want to get married immediately so we can share our time togethr, n b with each other fully. Glad to hear ur friend is doin better.my aunt had cancer,n while the doctors didnt think she'd make it,her positive attitude pulled her thru.n allah's will,naturally

the lonely twin said...

this is a very though situation but I think that if I'm really truly, madly in love I would stay because I believe that love makes people do things they never think they could and they think irrationally, the thing is if I'm not in love I would think about the whole situation in a more rational way, if he loves me I would feel guilty for abandoning him, if he doesn't then I don't think I' stay but then again I don't think I'll get married to someone I don't love

Coconut said...

i dont need to think about it. was thru exact situation before & decided to stay with him & support through. although it didntw ork out between us eventually for other reasons & he found out that first diagnosis was wrong, i.e., he doesnt have cancer, i'm too proud of my choice & never regret it, i'll do it over again if loving someone with same condition

Italiano said...

Bibi: So true. It's Allah's Will that Pulls us through situations like that. Hope your grandmother is still doing better.

Lonely Twin: You have a great mind. I'm serious, by the way since everyone mistakes me for sarcastic nowadays.

Thunder (or Ra3d but I think Thunder suits you better, don't know why!): And he let you go after that? Was he stupid or something...

Coconut said...

ok italiano call me thunder, it's pretty nice:)
haahahhah,i dont know till now the real reason behind leaving me. some people enjoy torturing themselves i guess.

Anonymous said...

Something very similar happened to me before. It was with the psycho horrible ex. I don't think anyone knows about it (except my parents) since I still believe I shouldn't talk about it and we're thru aslan. Anyway, he had some sort of muscle atrophy. He didn't tell me about it at first. Not until a few months later when we were together and in love. And what did I do?

Stayed with him, of course even though he turned into a psycho and the most abusive ever later and no it had nothing to do with his condition. I guess he was always like that but at first he was romantic and crazy about me and all that didn't show.

Brings sad memories really...

I still wasted about five years of my life on him. And I was the most miserable ever. And I never ever even brought up his condition in conversation again.

Outlandish said...

That's a tough situation. I don't think I'd ever give up on the one I love, not ever.. even if I didn't love the guy, I'd support him still, although I know I can't be with someone I'm not head over heals in love with in the first place. And as Aisha said, I would love to be as closest to my guy more than ever!
Hope your friend is getting better :)