She's as constant as the tide, the woman I let choose me for eternity; I don't deserve her, but it's done. She's mine. My treasure. My wife.

He is my husband. I belong to him, body and soul. Never have I ever loved a man so fiercely. Yet, when we're ripped apart, my love is crippling; it intensifies the excruciating nightmare of my reality.

We said until death do us part...without him, death is what I fear.

I promised I'd protect her. Now the absence of her makes me ache--the distance between us tugging at my innermost being.

That is who I am. That is who we are. Bound as one. Tethered together.