A Woman's Flight Chapter 11

He didn't want her to feel like he was just going to shack up with a woman and eat all of her cooking and still have sex with no intentions on actually going anywhere with it. It was with this logic he decided to accept her offer. He would come to resent feeling forced into marrying her later on in their marriage toward the end when his drinking began to get its most out of control.

Before she had married him her official name was Lizzy Olson. Her parents were against her getting married to him from the start. When her mom first heard they were getting engaged she had said, "What do you really know about this man Lizzy? You have only known him for a couple of months. There is no possible way you can know enough about someone in that short of time. You should reconsider or at least put it off. I don't get a good feeling about him. There is something about him that is off. I can't quit put my finger on it but there is just something about him I don't like. Can't you at least wait to figure out a little bit more about him before you actually get married to this man. If there are problems let me know? Marrying someone never helps to solve the problems, they only make them worst. You should know that better than anyone from my first marriage Lizzy. All I am asking is for you to wait and reconsider.”

She looked her mom dead in the eye and said, " Mom don't worry. I know what I am doing. I love him. He is nothing like dad. I know the type of man he is and I know what I am getting myself into. Don't worry about it. I know you care and you are trying to help, but things between me and him are just fine. I am not getting any younger or prettier and I want to have a family. I can't just sit around waiting forever. I have to take the opportunity now while it is still available."