For Better or Worse, For Richer or Poorer

In the movie "Love Story", Ali McGraw's character chose to write her own marital vows. See https://youtu.be/4LH0lUap8fc.

I think that her character rejected the traditional vows, in part, because women were one day expected to promise "to love, honor and OBEY". As a feminist, she couldn't handle that.

But a traditional wedding vows are more popular than these "hippy dippy" vows. A standard vow (http://weddings.about.com/od/weddingvows/a/traditionalvows.htm) was as follows:

I, (name), take you (name), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

One can read other traditional vows at the aforementioned web page. Another says, "in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow". The part about loving in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad pretty much mirrors the part about health, but substitutes "good times and bad for references specifically to finances. It's the same idea, though.

In the video at https://youtu.be/qy7FOxhHGQA, the groom cries at the wedding. (He and his bride are both obviously Christians.)

I can REALLY relate to that, for reasons that are quite different from his. At 58, and with my mobility disability, it will be a minor miracle if I ever get married to an attractive woman.