なんちゃって英語・英会話コミュのYou are my wife.

Recently I watched an interesting TV drama. It was
nonfiction. The main person of this drama is a middle-
aged man, and he is now an associate professor of
Tokyo University. He studies and teaches welfare.

He has become blind for a disease when he was 8 years
old. Moreover he has become deaf when he was 18 years
old. And so now he is blind and deaf, but he can speak.
Maybe he had been depressed seriously, but he has begun
to learn welfare. Now he has made a speech about his
experience.

What is the method of his communication? It's from
fingers to fingers. It's a difficult method, but there
are several interpreters. In the drama a female was an
interpreter. She touched his fingers with her fingers.
This action has many meanings.

A young woman listened to his speech, and she hoped to
learn this communication method. She was born in
Hiroshima Prefecture, and graduated from Hiroshima
University. She has been interested in welfare, and
lived in Tokyo.

Presently she has become his interpreter, and married
him. She wrote a book of her life after marriage. Her
life with him has been difficult. In a way she was
hands and legs of him. Finally she thought that she
wasn't bearable.

She talked with her brother. Her brother said,“Do
you think that you help him? He is a handicapped
person, and so he needs your help. But it's your
pride.”

Her husband said,“You are not my maid. I need you,
because I want to live with you. If you want to rest,
you can sleep sufficiently. You are my wife.”

I thought deeply about this drama. I'm married, but do
I think that my wife is an equal partner? I'm uncertain
about it. I can see and hear, but I think that it's
usual. I should thank for my wife and my physical
condition.