GLADYS, MY UNFORGETTABLE LOVE
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The video was filmed
on June 1st, by WCIU, channel 11, in the program 26 N. Halsted public affairs show,
whose host is Mr. George Blaise. Dr. Morales-Pita has been previously
interviewed by Mr. Blaise on several occasions.
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Synopsis:
This book is the author’s contribution to the legacy of love that Gladys Morales delivered to humanbeings regardless of their sex, age, and socio-economic, and political status. Everyone needs to feel love and be loved, and Gladys’ principles and values show the reader a way to create, to preserve, to defend, and to build a successful love relationship. Her life is an example of a way to make marriage or togetherness a long lasting relationship.
The author is the lucky recipient of Gladys’ love during forty years of happy marriage, through which a “machista” man was turned into a loving and faithful husband. The marriage was not exempt of political difficulties (such as escaping from the Cuban Communist government), economic and financial obstacles (starting from scratch in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States), psychological issues (the dilemma of leaving a native country, and resentment from a first wife who did not accept a divorce), and social and ethnic issues (since Gladys and Antonio belonged to different races). The couple’s relationship was able to overcome all inconveniences through steadfast love.
The love affair presented in the book was born -- as it usually happens with most young couples -- out of an immediate physical and mutual attraction. The spell was cast at the moment of the first rendezvous. Nonetheless, Gladys took care of making the relationship last for a lifetime. She deserves most of the credit for the forty-one years of the couple’s unforgettable togetherness and identification as soulmates. The reader will be able to confirm the singularity of the couple’s love relationship through the impact that their love story is expected to have on him/her.
The chapters delve into the readers’ lives through the ways in which Gladys approached and expressed the following : a) loyalty and sincerity (chapter I), b) coping with jealousy (chapter II), c) improving her husband’s deficiencies (chapter III), d) being firm in defending principles and values (chapter IV), e) enhancing human relationships (chapter V), f) delivering love to, and identification with, children (chapter VI), g) expressing love for her partner in multiple ways (chapter VIII), h) showing legitimate modesty (chapter VIII), i) the extraordinary way in which she faced death (chapter IX), and, finally, j) her legacy (chapter X). Every chapter shows Gladys’ means of facing and overcoming the difficulties generally encountered by couples. The legitimacy of Gladys’ approach to love is proven by her success in battling unfavorable family, social, political, economic, and ethnic environments in the three countries mentioned above.
The market niche for this book is made up of women and men from youth to older ages. Chapters I
and II will be especially useful to young and middle age individuals, chapters III to VIII will be of interest to all ages, chapter IX will be extremely useful for couples whose relationship surpasses twenty years, and finally, chapter X can be enjoyed by all ages.
The language used in the book is within the reach of the average educated individual.
As an inborn professor, the author is used to learning insatiably and spreading his knowledge. He finds it difficult to keep the knowledge inside of him and needs to make it known to other people. During forty years he was blessed to share his exciting life with an extraordinary person. Her life can be inspiring to many human beings in this same world full of wars, miseries, terrorist threats, hatred, and conflicts.
There is also tenderness on this planet. The book will help readers to discover love in themselves, in
their families, and friends and to enjoy it as long as there is life. It would be a good way to get comfort in times of grief. To love and to be loved is a big human achievement. Gladys showed this author what real love is, and he wants to share this knowledge in this book, which shows most of her virtues, all of them directly or indirectly related to the ways she felt love.
Without pretending to be a formula to avoid divorces or separations, the contents of this book are
expected to improve the quality of the readers’ love relationships through the implementation of the
approaches taken by Gladys to establish and to develop a strong sense of togetherness with her partner.
This book is unique because it deals with the life of an exceptional woman who – despite being the
daughter of a divorced couple raised by her aunts and grandparents -- never stopped loving her parents and spreading love around her, especially to children. On top of that, she had five miscarriages, and never could become a mother and -- nonetheless -- up to her last moment, she always strongly identified with children. Her strongest quality, though, was her very special and inspirational ways to express love for the man in her life. Another distinct quality of this book lies in the fact that this extraordinary person’s example can be extended to other people who become acquainted with her life’s story.
The goal of summarizing Gladys’ legacy will be materialized if readers feel more inspired to deeply love those human beings who make up their families, or who are relevant members of their sentimental lives.