Today
is my anniversary.
I’ve
been married a good long while, but I always get to celebrate the day with five
special people. Actually six, if you count me. You see, we all got married on the
same day. Not the same year, but the same day.
It
started about seven years into my marriage. My friend Suzy said she thought I
had such a great marriage that she wanted to get hers off to a (cosmically) good
start by holding her wedding day on my anniversary.
And
as if that wasn’t compliment enough, three years later my girlfriend Denise did
the same thing!
Many
times during arguments with my hubby over the years I’ve thought of those
girlfriends. I had to set a good example for a happy marriage, right? So hubby
and I always ended up kissing and making up.
It
helps that every year on my anniversary hubby gives me 22 red roses because I
was 22 when we met and he says I’ll ‘always be 22 in his heart.’ Aww… who can
argue with a man like that? Gotta love him.
Marriage
has its ups and downs, its problems and its challenges. But if you can still
say that you like your partner, that you respect him, even after years of
togetherness, I think that’s the mark of a successful marriage. I can certainly
still say that about my hubby!
Both
my girlfriends are still happily married, too. That makes me proud.
My
yoga teacher gave the best advice in class one day. She said, “It’s better to be
kind than it is to be right.”
Think
of that next time you argue with your hubby, LOL!
Jenna
www.jennaives.com