Party of Five1994

Charlie Salinger:
You don't understand, Kirsten. I can't do this!

Kirsten Bennett:
Yes. Yes, you can.

Charlie Salinger:
Why won't you listen to me?

Kirsten Bennett:
I am listening to you! What I am not doing is indulging you.

Charlie Salinger:
What?

Kirsten Bennett:
You're scared. Well, hello... yes, it's scary. I'm scared too. Getting married is scary. You're panicked. Well, who isn't the morning of their wedding? But you make a choice. You either decide that it's second thoughts, or if you love me, Charlie, you decide that it's nervous anticipation and you go back downstairs. And when the minister asks "do you take this woman?", you say "I do".

Charlie Salinger:
No! No, you don't understand! I say that and I'm married, and I will be with the last woman I'm ever going to have and that I've got all the kids that I'm ever gonna have. And I live in my father's house. And every day I go to my father's job at the restaurant. And any one of those things on their own, I can deal with, but... you add them up, Kirsten. The wife and the kids and the house and the job... and that's every decision that I'm ever gonna make in my life! I've got no choices left! I'm 25 years old and I know my whole life.

Kirsten Bennett:
And it's not what you want? I'm not what you want? You don't love me?

Charlie Salinger:
I do love you. I don't want to be with anyone else. I don't.

Kirsten Bennett:
You just don't want to marry me?

Charlie Salinger:
No, I do. I do. I just... I just need time to sit with all this for a while.

Kirsten Bennett:
Listen to me, Charlie. We don't have time. My parents are downstairs, and your family and friends and a minister and 35 pounds of Australian shrimp. Now, you just pull yourself together, okay. You take a deep breath and put all this behind you, because we are getting married today.

Charlie Salinger:
No. I can't.