To My Husband

20 Years of Marriage

I can’t believe it’s been 20 years of our marriage. Seems like just yesterday when we were so in awe of one another at the end of 8th grade; flirting, smiling, trying to be close to each other without being obvious. Then came the endless phone conversations, you riding your bike to my house, walking to your house and back to mine. We were only brave enough to hold hands, nothing more.

We grew up together, went thru so much together, yet living our own separate lives with our families and trying to grow as individuals. It was tough for you watching me in my family as I clung to ‘normalcy’ hanging with your family.
We had our ups and downs, but that was normal as teenagers. We shared everything with each other, we shared our dreams. You stayed by my side thru it all. Then came time for college and grow even more as individuals. We went our separate ways our first year, but still together in our hearts. It was a year of growth and figuring out who we were as individuals, yet we still belonged to one another, we made it.

We knew we wanted to be with each other for the rest of our lives, our biggest dream of all. We made it happen.

Now 20 years later, here we are, living our dream that we dreamed at such young ages. And what a 20 years it has been. We’ve lived our marriage vows to the letter:
“…Will you love her/him(for a lifetime), and comfort her/him(always), honor(in the highest regards) and keep her/him(forever in our hearts), in sickness(we struggled thru sickness, mainly for me, but we made it and even stronger now) and in health(we celebrate health for us and our beautiful children), for richer(we made our dreams come true, tho it was hard, we did it), for poorer(we have had some of our greatest memories struggling with being ‘poor’), for better(we always strived to be better and we did it working as a team), for worse(the struggles were rough, but we made sure to re-focus and get back to each other and our priorities), forsaking all others(we’ve always kept to ourselves and done things for ourselves), as long as you both shall live? (And beyond, we were meant to be together, God knew it and with our combined faith in Him and in one another, we will be with one another forever and ever, Amen.)

We are lucky enough to be able to say, “And they lived happily ever after.” Thank you for all of the great years, prior to the 20 years and way more to come.

All My Love and More, ~Kim