It was a simple decision now. Back then, it hadn't been.
She was abandoning everything - her family, her values, her inheritance, her entire way of existing. And for what? For the off chance that it might work out? Who knew if they'd still be together in five, ten, fifty years time?
What she did know, however, was that she loved him.
Despite this, somewhere in the deepest, darkest part of her mind danced the doubts that Bella had planted there.
"You know Andy, these vile mudbloods can't even stay committed to one person. They just fuck about like bitches in the heat. They have no notion of the integrity and honour that our wizarding world is based on."
However, Ted told Andromeda he loved her too and that was enough for her. Despite her furious avoidance of the truth, she could not deny that there was an inexplicable attraction that tied them together in a way that words could not articulate.
Their marriage ceremony consisted of all of his family and none of hers and it may have been the best day of her life. A year and a half later, her darling daughter Nymphadora had been born.
It had not always been a simple decision. But now, looking at her husband tickling their four year old daughter mercilessly and witnessing Nymphadora's shrieks and giggles rebound off every wall in their humble home, Andromeda wondered how she could have ever lived with any other decision.