Just close your eyes, the sun is going down you'll be alright, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound.
Alcmene (ALC-ME-NEIGH)
TRIGGER WARNING - INFERTILITY, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, GUILT
ALCMENE ZERVOUS did not fit in with her family expectations of her. Her mother wanted to arrange a marriage with a wealthy family and her Father wanted her to take over the family business. However Alcmene had her own idea of what she wanted her life to look like and it started with a young man named Amphitryon. She had always had feelings for him, he was always kind, warm and generous to her.. to Alcmene he was perfection-- and he was all she wanted.
It was the early 80s when Amphitryon finally worked up the courage to invite Alcmene to dinner, she quickly accepted and the two began to date from there. They married in Mykonos, Greece in 1987 and Alcmene branched away from her families money to work in fashion, where she felt she was better suited. Her now husband, Amphit however opened his own food store consisting of his families’ olive oil and local breads, cheeses and wines.
After three years of marriage it became painfully clear that they were unable to have a child; this devastated Alcmene who wanted nothing more than to start a family with her husband. The pair fell into some hard times emotionally by not communicating and Alcmene began to feel incredibly guilty that she could not give her husband the life he wanted, it was destroying her; to not be able to have the one thing she had always wanted. Suffering from depression and anxiety Alcmene needed to get out of Greece-- far away where people didn’t know her.. so when her husband suggested America she jumped at the chance to start over and maybe it could bring them closer together again.
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adoptive mother of; Hercules Zervous
wife to; Amphitryon Zervous
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