Reena’s Exploration Challenge #96 – Lost and Found.

The default position within the family was set on naive. The boy through no fault of his own inherited it.

Blithely he experienced what he leant from the newspaper and the radio news.

His mum shared the romantic stories of her cheap novels, love was something earned, and if you were lucky, it worked out ok.

For twenty years he lived that way, then he met a girl and thought he was in love.

Marriage came, and with it, the expectation of a life shared, of acceptance, of mutual love and care.

Within a week, he was confronted by the stark reality that marriage was not as he imagined. Living with another person had its pitfalls, and he was not prepared; his romantic notion of love and marriage was very soon shattered.

There upon he entered a world of pain, misery and torture, not what he thought he was signing…