from the book
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product_slideshow?sku=675799&actual_sku=675799&slide=10&action=Next
When you marry another person, you make a vow to love and cherish your spouse through thick and thin, as long as you both shall live. But what if that commitment is tested by serious illness, or financial difficulty? Would you stay together? Are there limits on how far love can go?
Kim and Krickitt Carpenter never expected their commitment to each other to be tested so early, when 2 months after their wedding, a car accident left Krickett with a traumatic head injury and in a coma. When she awoke several weeks later, her rehabilitation began, but Krickitt had no memory of her husband. The previous 18 months when they had met, fallen in love, and been married were completely erased. Kim and Krickitt had to start all over again with the stress of physical rehabilitation, mounting medical bills and amnesia against them.
In The Vow, the Carpenters share their story of how, against enormous odds, they stuck together, fell in love again, and kept the marriage vows they'd made to each other. They also share their Christian faith, and how it sustained them through their most difficult times. In this volume, you'll read about the true events that inspired the February 2012 movie starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, and see personal photos from Kim and Krickitt.
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and now from Dr Phils show website
from Dr Phils website...on this page is a video, it maybe copy of tv show from Tuesday March 5 2012-- Complicated Love the topic
first the show had a couple Cherie and Craig, then THE VOW couple Krickitt and Kim Carpenter.........
http://drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/6780/?id=6780&slide=0&showID=1805&preview=&versionID=
Just weeks after Kim and Krickitt got married, a horrible car crash left Krickitt with brain damage, which erased memories of her new husband. The couple describes their inspiring, yet oftentimes heartbreaking, journey of falling in love again. Plus, find out how they feel about having their lives played out in the movie, The Vow.
Kim says he fell fast and hard for Krickitt, and less than a year after they first met, they got married. Just weeks later in 1993, the two were in a terrible crash while Krickitt was driving them to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving.
“I think it’s so great that you stayed together and in fact kind of behaved your way back into it,” Dr. Phil tells Kim and Krickitt. “Did you know the concept of wife?” he asks Krickitt.
“I didn’t remember how this new wife did it,” she responds. She explains that when she moved back home with Kim, she had to relearn some things. “I asked him, ‘Well, what did I used to do? Did I make you breakfast every morning?”
“This was a good time for you to fill in some blanks,” Dr. Phil quips to Kim.
“I tried to tell her some differences, but she didn’t fall for it,” Kim jests.
“There were some things I knew,” Krickitt says with a laugh. When asked whether she felt uncomfortable around Kim when she first moved back, Krickitt says, “Cognitively, I probably acted like a 7 or 8 year old, once I moved home to live with him, and I kind of went with it; It was kind of like playing house.”
Dr. Phil asks the couple what it’s like to watch their story played out in the movie, The Vow.
Krickitt says that the movie really captured Kim’s desire to win her back. She points out that when she awoke from her coma, she said her husband’s name was Todd — an old boyfriend. “And my new husband of 10, probably 12 weeks at that time, was sitting right there,” she recalls.
n a previously-recorded interview, Kim explains the sometimes gut-wrenching challenges with his wife's recovery, especially physical therapy. “She hated my guts,” he says of his persistence. “'I don’t love you. I don’t know why you’re here. Why don’t you go back to where you came from,'” he recalls Krickitt saying to him. “It was a stab in the heart.”
Back onstage, Kim explains that Krickitt was an all-American gymnast at Cal State Fullerton, so he believed she could handle a tougher physical regimen than what the therapist was calling for. He says Krickitt got mad at him for pushing her so hard. “I wanted my old wife back,” he admits. “It was tough.
“I had made a decision that I wasn’t going to leave; I wasn’t going anywhere. I was going to stay with her until she could actually look me in the face, in a competent state, with abilities to take care of herself and tell me, ‘That’s it,’” he says of his perseverance.
“How much of her original personality did she get back?” Dr. Phil asks Kim.
“I was really hung up on getting back the woman that I married,” he confesses. “But, you know, after we started building new memories, it didn’t matter.” Of being able to build new memories, he says, “We got a second chance.
“I can remember it as if it were yesterday,” Kim says of the accident. He admits that the movie, The Vow, and their book, The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie, bring back the emotions.
