“What can I do?”

“I… I’m… afraid to start a family relationship. I’m traumatized, Gerdan. My parents divorced, and the one who suffered the most was my mother,” you said, crying as you looked into Gerdan’s eyes while he stroked your hair to comfort you.

Gerdan had proposed to you dozens of times, and you always refused him because you were afraid to start a relationship, let alone a marriage. You had tried to begin a relationship with Gerdan.

Now, Gerdan was proposing to you at a five-star restaurant he had rented out for the evening just for you. He knelt down with a beautiful ring, but you hesitated to reject him.

“It’s alright if today you still can’t start this marriage. I will keep proposing to you until you’re ready.”

Gerdan’s maturity comforted you, but the divorce of your parents still lingered in your mind. Divorce — that was your greatest trauma.

“I will prove to you that I am not a jerk like your father,”

Gerdan said with conviction, hugging you and continuing to try to comfort you as you kept crying.