Priorities and tests of strength

[Burgbud]

(hap) Burg and Cemar must be living in a constant boiling pit of resentment if this is their belief system.

And yet I'm not. How can that be?

You do not OWN their love or have any greater rights over it than any other loved one.

I'm also not interested in marrying a woman whose thought process is, "Now that we're married I love you just the same as everyone else I love. If you're in the hospital and they're in the hospital, I don't know what I'll do."

At the very least I'd tell her in response, "You should go be with them. If I can't count on you to take care of me when I need it then I'll make sure I'm just counting on myself."