Ting Yao-tsung and Wu Hui-chen of Taichung have been married for 18 years. For several years Ting ran a building supply firm in mainland China. He was there for eight years, leaving Wu, a nurse at Veterans General Hospital in Taichung, to raise their two children alone.
住在台中的丁耀宗和吳惠玲結婚將近十八年，前幾年丁耀宗被公司派往大陸，經營鞋材生意，一去八年，在台中榮總擔任護理師的吳惠玲獨自帶著兩個孩子在台灣。