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RE: Happy Wedding Anniversary to Us (and Monochrome Monday)
Congratulations Marillaanne! Eighteen years is a great milestone indeed, especially nowadays!
I see so many people who are not willing to make a marriage work.
It's always easier to give up and say you tried, than putting in the efforts which strengthen the bonds. After all it's about Love, which is very misunderstood and a word that has become just a word and not the feeling!
My wife and I just reached our 38th year together! I know right!!
Seems like only yesterday we were making the vows.
You have built a bond together which may not always be the most harmonious, but is a connection to someone which is stronger than steel when it matters.
Ohhh! Congratulations to you!!
This is what so many people miss! Not that we glory in those less than harmonious moments, but they are certainly allowed. Allowed with grace. Allowed without automatically believing the absolute worst about each other. Allowed with the knowledge that we really aren't trying to sabotage each other.
Having one long bad and one long great marriage, I tell everybody, "If you don't completely trust the person, without exception, don't make excuses for staying in the relationship and, for the love of all possible future children, don't get married!"
Well, technically don't give procreation even an accidental chance under any circumstance if you don't trust your partner ... and for that matter why would one have sex with someone they don't fully trust?!
Course, nobody's listened, yet.
I couldn't say it any better, thanks by the way!