“The real men are gone!” Such remarks can often be heard from the lips of women offended by fate. “We’re not dead,” I want to answer them, “I just didn’t meet you!” Rita, Idochka and Lera were lucky: they got excellent suitors. But for a family to be happy, not only meeting a good person is important. Rita was unable to share with her husband the severity of the trials sent by fate: she withdrew from the struggle for the life of her sick daughter. Ida did not have enough wisdom in building a marriage with Grisha. And Lera did something that turned the lives of many upside down.