As the day approaches that my nest empties and the new normal will be just my Chano and me, Ive been thinking.... a lot. Anyone who knows me knows that living with me is not always sunshine and lollipops,Luckily I married my best friend who knows how to make me laugh, make me murderously angry, or just sit in silence watching t.v .together. I love my husband differently now—I guess you would say more completely—than the day we were married because we have been through the highs and lows of life together. We have gone to sleep unhappy and trudged through days feeling unconnected. But we forgive and reconnect and love each other more. It’s not the shinny-new-penny type of love and euphoria that we shared in those first years, and I admit that I sometimes miss that. But it is a richer love, because it is based on more shared experience than it was the day we said “I do.” In reality, marriage can be incredibly hard no matter how great the guy. It takes a lot to meld two lives—two different personalities, from two different backgrounds, equipped with entirely different ways of dealing with conflict. I’m so grateful for where we are now,and where the next phase in our life takes us.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:13:12 +0000
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