Excerpt: Daughter-in-Law

The judge could have declared us Kangaroo and harp seal and I would not have known.
I loved my husband at first, that is typical and I really did, but the moment the judge said we were husband and wife, or whatever he said, I was a little dizzy, when I went to put my husband's ring on his finger, it turned out I was shaking too, all I was really aware of was this loud clank, it was the sound of prison bars crashing shut, that first terrible cold scary, lonesome night of prison incarceration for a person, it was as clear a sensation to me as if the cell was right there, I reeled from that feeling, I felt it in my chest for, maybe the first 5 or 6 months of married life.
During that time I thought to myself a lot about how crazy I was to get married, what was
I thinking, had someone drugged me, I don't know why anyone gets married, life is not hard enough? People who get married several times must be complete lunatics,
I thought If I get out of this alive, I certainly would never do it again!
Not that I didn't love him, 25 is just very young to give up on happiness.