Ten Things I’ve Learned About Love in 42 Years
This was taken about 42 years ago by a Polaroid Camera. I’m grateful we were able to scan it in and save the picture as a lot of my old pictures are slowly deteriorating. I look at this picture and think how naive we were back then, just a few months before we were married. It’s pretty amazing how you weave your way through life together, isn’t it? You start out thinking love is enough … with no idea of what it really takes to face the pitfalls or what the challenges will be.
Ten things I’ve learned:
1. Share your spirituality … live a life that shows your beliefs.
2. Love means you never intentionally do or say something to hurt each other … when you reach that point there is no more blame for mistakes because you see them for what they are … a mistake.
3. Don’t get lost in individual responsibilities so much that you forget to have fun together.
4. Center your life together around your family and spend as much time as you can with extended family members.
5 Don’t assume the other one can read your mind or take a hint … most of the time they can’t. Learn to understand.
6. Don’t compare your marriage to someone else’s. You don’t really know what goes on behind their closed doors.
7. Write down the nice, thoughtful things that are done for you regularly … that you take for granted. Romance comes in many shapes, sometimes it’s flowers, sometimes it’s a delicious hot meal … sometimes it’s as simple as a wink in a crowded room.
8. Show respect and appreciation … always.
9. Laugh, laugh, laugh and then laugh some more.
10. Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff. So what if he doesn’t shut the cupboard doors or wipe up his crumbs … So what if she squeezes the tooth paste from the middle … It’s okay.
Before you know it you may be at McDonald’s many years later with your grandchildren.
You haven’t changed much, but your first husband was much handsomer.
LOL Mark, that was a good one!
I have some beautiful parents….on the inside and out..I love you!
You two are really special people! No wonder I want to be like you when I grow up.
Your clock is off. I wrote the above comment on June 19th. at 10:53 p.m. Oh well……hehe
The time stamps being recorded are based on the server hosting this blog. My blog software has a setting to let me adjust the time reported to reflect my local time. I wager WordPress has a configuration option like this as well….
Love the two photos. How fortunate you are – and how good looking – then and now. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. Reminded me I’d not visited yours in a long time. Have spent quite a few minutes reacquainting myself. Much enjoyed.
love this post, especially #10. my husband is completely incapable of pushing a chair back up to the table when he gets out of it. oh well…he ALWAYS puts the seat on the toilet down!
and kim looks so much like you in the top pic…cute!