Like a bolt of lightning

I got married at twenty, with my first boyfriend. A simple, true and sincere love. I hadn't had any other men before; if the plans went as planned, he would be my only companion for life. But life often derails from the rails within which we had tried to make it travel; so we are faced with events to which we had not in the least thought that, like earthquakes, they make the certainties to which we were clinging collapse.