by Amy Gallagher

Created on: October 26, 2008

Torn between Heart and Blood
There is a young woman, who is twenty-one, small, and a brunette. She is studying exactly what she wants to study, in university. She has a nice family, good friends, and is in a happy relationship with a man, whom she loves enough to marry. Unfortunately, she isn't entirely happy. She has been facing dilemmas for a long time.
This young woman, Katrina, is the eldest of two daughters. She was always the one who needed and demanded less attention. From this, she became emotionally strong. She would find herself keeping many of her troubles to herself. She bottled them up. She believed that she could deal with them. This lead to many nights of crying herself to sleep; many moments of sadness also came out of it as well. She had been disappointed many times by people close to her, which is most likely why she made a habit not to become close to many people, for fear of disappointment. But she never uttered a word about this.

Then she met a man, whom she fell madly in love with. He would eventually ask her to marry him. She accepted. She found herself falling more and more in love with him, to a degree that she never knew possible. Katrina felt that she could truly be herself with him. She had someone to turn to whenever she wanted.
Sadly for her, with all the years of bottling her emotions in, she had to learn how to talk about her emotions and her problems. But she worked on this fact, slowly. But at time passed, the couple soon discovered that they wanted to get married sooner than they had originally told their parents. His mother was very opened to the idea, but her father opposed, which made her unhappy. The couple was unsure what to do.
Katrina had to chose between her heart, the man that she love, and her blood, her family. She wanted to marry her love as soon as possible, but she did not want to deceive her family or lie to them. She had to choose between someone with whom she had known much happiness, and a place where she had known nothing but tears.
Katrina did not fully understand why she felt such a dilemma between two places to what she associated such opposite emotions. She could not, but the conflict in her was still her for some reason. Katrina and her fiance had to make a decision together, as difficult as it was. They both faced the dilemma. Katrina was very sorry to drag the man that she loved into such a dilemma. The last thing she wanted was to drag him into a place, where she had known few moments of unhappiness. There wasn't much she could do, as they both deeply loved each other. Katrina was certainly not willing to give him up for anything. Her family would have to deal with him.

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