Love and marriage requires a whole lot of commitment and dedication towards each other. As the vows say ‘until death do us part’, marriages should be like that. However, in current times, majority of couples do not last 25 years of marriage, let alone a lifetime. There are very few examples of couples been faithful and devoted towards each other.
However this story which we have for you, will give you the correct way to treat your loved ones and not just spouse. Read about the sweet gesture by this husband for his wife and keep a box of tissue by your side, coz you will tear up.
1 The husband and the wife
Jon Newman and his wife have been married for 18 years. Both had exchanged the vows of been there for one another ‘in sickness and in health’. After Marci, his wife, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Jon has been with her through all the doctor appointments, surgeries and treatment. However, with her latest surgery, she had to endure hours of radioactive iodine treatment in order to destroy the cancer cells in her thyroid glands.
This meant that doctors isolated her in a room in her house, in order to keep the other members of the family safe. She has to stay her room with doors closed, but Jon doesn’t want to make her feel alone. "On the first day my dad sat outside in the backyard and talked to her through the window," their daughter Mackenna said.
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