Originally posted by Luvin Labs
sorry, but it sure looked like a comparision to me.

but still, she didn't break her back, she is not up and speaking and eating and drinking like someone who breaks their back would, even if the only similar thing is both of them are 'changed' from what they were when married. I guess I don't get your reasoning for stating that... since people can and do change during their marriage to someone (i.e. new job, new baby, new dog, etc etc), like I said a broken back and being a vegetable are totally different changes, one you cannot come back from (brain practically gone, can't talk or eat, etc.) and the other you might be able to come back from (not to mention that person can talk, masticate, etc)...
I'm not going to talk in circles. My point was that you made it sound that since Terri had been altered from the person Michael married, he had every right to move on with his life and commit adultery. As assinine as my "broken back" comment was in your mind, your thought that he had/has a right to have a girlfriend (and children) is just as ridiculous to me. I'm not saying you don't have a right to have that opinion. I'm merely just voicing my own on the matter.

If, God forbid, my husband were ever put in a situation anywhere near Terri's (where his mind was forever and irrevocably changed), you can bet your life that I would not be having relations (and children) with other men. When I vowed to stand by my husband, I meant for better or worse, in sickness and in health, until we are parted by death with all my heart and soul. Not any other circumstance. And I would hold him to the same accord were I put in a situation where I was in a conditions similar to Terri's.

Like I said, you are more than free to have that opinion and I am more than free to feel just the opposite.