I run toooooo….the one that I belong toooo…
Pardon my Shania Twain moment but it fits my mode today. 16 years ago, on a ridiculously hot July morning, the hubby and I hit the courthouse and decided to tie ourselves together for life. 16 years y'all!
I woke up this morning to him scrubbing the shower! At six in the morning!!! He does it because it hurts my back and I ask him nicely to tackle it. That's love right there! And after a good chuckle, all I could go was smile. Yup, he's all mine.
I never really pictured the man I'd marry as a young girl. I didn't exactly have strong male role models in my life to help me build that image. I picked and plucked characteristics from TV dads but never had a solid picture of the man I'd want to spend my life with.
Thankfully, God always knows what He's doing and sent me my hubby. Grant it, we tried our level best to tear ourselves apart at one point, we managed to make it this far. Now, we are so solid our kids roll their eyes at our blatant affection and people who don't know us think we're newly weds. I love blowing their minds when I tell them we've been married longer than most people own cars and have five kids and three grandkids!
We are one of those walking testimonies. You know the ones. The people who overcame crazy stuff, most of which they stupidly inflicted on themselves, and came out stronger on the other side. Our relationship has seen pretty much everything. Infidelity on both sides. Mistrust. Crazy exes. Children shared with other people. Distance. Anger. Joy. Laughter. And a crap ton of love. Every single thing we went through made us the obnoxiously lovey dovey happy couple we are today.
Would I change any of it? Maybe some of it. I mean who wouldn't want to erase some of the pain or heartache they caused or had inflicted on them? Buuuuuuuut, those things were also lessons we needed to learn that simply made us stronger.
It's wild to think we hit 16 years of marriage today. He's my other half. The face I fall asleep to each night. The first text I read in the morning. The only human I won't snap at for talking to me before five in the morning! We've had a wild 16 years so far. I can't wait to see what the next 16 and beyond have in store.
Happy anniversary my love
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