We’ve been together for over 30 years and throughout it all we’ve been partners, which is especially true in the last 10 years. When you start out in marriage you’re close, really close. As the years pass, you start to move away from each other; interests diverge, time is taken and you look outside the marriage. What I’ve learned is the longer you go in a marriage the more you appreciate and come to rely on your partner.
This is the best I can do to graphically show how close I felt to Missy during our marriage. Excuse the rudimentary drawing.
Somewhere in the middle of our journey, I didn’t feel like a partner in our marriage. We suffered a couple of major setbacks and it was the only time I felt alone.
Look at the last 10 years, though. Whether it’s the addition of 2 kids, our maturity or even simply accepting our marriage, I feel much closer to Missy and more of a partner than I ever have.
Having a great partner in your marriage ensures you always have someone to play with, talk with and even love with.
At the beginning of our marriage we would joke and tease each other with this song by Huey Lewis and the News:
Now that we’re at 30 years it really is this song by Al Green: