When she made him the unexpected proposal—to marry her—Artem couldn’t sleep for several nights. His heart said one thing, his mind another.

But before his eyes were his mother, who needed treatment, and his little sister, who was asking him for money for school supplies. The decision was not easy, but he agreed.

“I’ll live a few years with this elderly lady, but my mother and sister won’t lack anything,” he told himself, convincing himself he was making the right choice.