38 years

Today, June 15, 2012, my husband, Wayne, and I are married 38 years. I can’t believe we’ve made it this far. I know it sounds corny, but it really has gone by fast.

We were such babies when we got married. I was 18 just out of high school, and he was 20 and still in college. No one gave us a “snowball’s chance in hell.” After all, we had only been dating for 2 months when he asked me, and when we got married 4 months after that – well, that makes it six months. I graduated from high school and got married all in the same month.

I’m not really sure how we did, but we beat the odds to be sure. We have experienced plenty of obstacles along the way – financial disasters more than once, job loss, moves, and illness. But with us, those things only made us stronger. We have learned to rely on each other entirely, because we have each other’s back. We may not agree with the other’s choices entirely, but we will defend the right to make that choice and allow the freedom to be that choice with every thing inside us. Perhaps that’s why we have made it this far.

I don’t know what the future holds for us, but this I know. I have someone who supports me and who has my back. There are times when I have felt like cashing in, but I don’t. Why? Believe me – it’s not from some convoluted thinking that I can’t make it alone. I know I can. I just think that through it all, I am a better person with me than without.

So, on this day, I wish my husband, Wayne, Happy Anniversary! I love you more than you know!