Our Second Marriage Anniversary

Yesterday marked our second marriage anniversary. We've married for two years now!! A whole two years! Or... Only two years! Crazy!! It's been awesome. Anyone who has been in a long-term relationship and married, understands that being a husband or wife comes with a great deal of responsibility. Along with deciding about the nit-picks of the daily routine and how each partner prefers things to get going, is the implicit understanding that the relationship needs a number of things to make it work. In those two years we’ve: we've learned SO MUCH.

The learning has been the greatest gift I’ve gotten from my marriage. And it’s been short, so I can only imagine how much I’ll have learned years fom now! AM and I are so similar and dissimilar in so many ways, and we think about and approach the world in very much the same ways – so it’s been specially interesting to learn about and observe the differences between us. AM has taught me a lot about patience, being cool-headed, and value of being together.

I’m one lucky gal, and in celebration of two awesome years of marriage to such an amazing person I wanted to share my thoughts for since our day of wedding. I didn’t share them till date, so I thought now might be a good time! I was feeling all gooey and mushy those days as our anniversary was approaching, and wanted to share just how freaking in love I am!

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I knew when I first met you that you were my best friend.  You have taught me how to love better, love stronger, and love deeper than I ever thought that I even could.  You have made me a better person, and I have learned to love myself by seeing myself loved by you.  With you I have learned to be calm.  With you I have learned to be brave.  And with you I have learned the true meaning of partnership.

 

I am so excited for our lifetime of adventures:  I want to never stop learning together, and within reason, never stop making our major life decisions in a unusually impulsive fashion together.

I am so grateful that I have the privilege of spending the rest of our lives holding you up, holding you close, standing behind you and standing beside you.  I am going to push you to be everything you can be, and I know I can count on you to do the same for me.  I will care for you, for our children, for our home.  I’m going to make sure you fly, in every sense of the word.

Every day I am in awe of the kind, gentle, loving, and honest person you show yourself to be, to me and to the world.  I have said all these things to you before, and I will try to say them to you everyday for the rest of our lives – But I want to tell you here in front of the people that have made us who we both are, that I love all of your everything with all of my everything.