Today is our anniversary-44 years and I have a different slant on the facts of life.
The facts of life are not about sex but about living day to day.
They’re about tolerance and forgiveness and being together. Its about satisfaction.
Sometimes you are riding a merry-go-round and you think it is monotonous.
Sometimes a ride is horrible and you can’t wait to get off.
But then comes a roller coaster ride that takes your breath away and forces you together.
Then a time you are side by side and you can’t imagine anything better.
Sometimes we are spectators. We speculate and observe.We comment. Love is our agreement on people and issues.
Change comes and we adjust. More changes will come. I’m grateful for today.
Where are the flowers,love songs and passionate I love you’s? He does the dishes and laundry. He always say “Be careful” when I go to work.
What is the secret to a long and happy marriage? Two people, a long time and enjoying the ride. Happy Anniversary Hubby!
Happy Anniversary!! MaryEllen, wishing you and your hubby a healthy abundance of many more.
Warmly, Jean
Happy Anniversary, MaryEllen! Every person who marries should receive a copy of your list today— what a positive and honest reflection of marriage! Reading it, I thought about the marriage of my parents- thank you for prompting this memory!
I read this quote yesterday and I wondered who to share it with– now I think it is you!
” We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.” ~ William Blake
I think I wished you a Happy Anniversary in another post but wanted to wish you it again. I am so happy you have had 44 years together. All those memories! A lot of what you posted is so true about marriage. I think people get married and think it is going to be a bed or roses sometimes and are shocked when they hit the bumps in the road and things don’t go as they planned. I was married just weeks short of 23 years to my husband before he died (although the lady that put the obituary up gave us 23 years. ) We were together almost 25 years total. We saw some good times and bad times but we managed to stick it out until his death. I appreciate hearing about long-term marriages and how they have stood the test of time. Call me sentimental but I still very much believe in love.