“Love, Loss, and a Heart-Wrenching Choice: What Happens When a Man Faces the Unthinkable?”
It Was Also A Competition
There was another reason why Kathy and Brandon didn’t open the gift. According to Kathy, they are “very competitive people.” “We love a challenge,” she told ABC News. The box became a strange sort of game to them.
“I honestly think that we both avoided turning to the box because it would have symbolized our failure,” Kathy wrote on Facebook. “And we’re both too stubborn and determined for that.” Neither Kathy nor Brandon wanted to be the first person who “cracked.”
Which Disagreement Was Big Enough?
On top of that, Brandon and Kathy couldn’t agree on which disagreement was “big enough” to warrant opening the gift. “What if this isn’t our worst fight?” Kathy reasoned. “What if there’s a worse one ahead of us, and we don’t have our box?”
The couple thought that if they had opened the box after a disagreement, it would have symbolized “failure.” In fact, Kathy’s Great Uncle Bill often said, “Nothing is so bad that it couldn’t get worse.”
“Have You Opened It Yet?”
Although Kathy and Brandon refused to open their present, that didn’t stop other family members from becoming curious. Aunt Alison herself asked the couple about it two years into their marriage.
When Aunt Alison asked if they had opened it, Kathy admitted that they hadn’t. “She looked at us like we were crazy,” Kathy later said with a laugh. The box quickly became a family joke: the present that the Gunn couple would never open.
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