today is our one and a half year anniversary. i’m sure this’ll be the last time we celebrate a half anniversary but it’s worth it for now…though maybe we won’t, me and him are celebrating our half birthdays, cause why not? any reason for the celebration of a person is good, right? and someday our kids will love that :)
i’m sure i have a lot of posts already talking about my relationship with him, but…
me and him…
are like a balloon of goodness ready to pop.
and i feel shy about saying that like i’m bragging or i guess without knocking on wood after, though i don’t think i’ve ever knocked on wood but everyone does so i feel the peer pressure…but really…how did me and him get this good? i know i prayed for like 15 years for him and spent many of those years being refined by the fire of waiting, etc, but still, it doesn’t seem like enough. maybe those were my few loaves and fishes and i gave what i could and it did cost me, but he mulitplied it and blessed out freaking socks off. maybe the sh*t will hit the fan after we get married, or so i hear, but still, i’m confident…you call me naive? it’s ok…
i’m confident in our history together
i’m confident in our general friendship
i’m confident in each other’s character
i’m confident in our willingness to work on our “stuff”
i’m confident in our kindness towards one another, in big and small ways
and i’m confident in our knowledge that we need and have the third strand in our relationship, our Father :)
i’m excited.
happy anniversary to us :)
Congrats and Happy Anniversary!! Celebrate your love and wishing you many more celebrations to come! :)
thanks, michelley! :D
“maybe the sh*t will hit the fan after we get married, or so i hear….”
Not sure who you’re hearing that from, but personally, I don’t accept it as truth. I hope you don’t, either. (It doesn’t sound like you do, which makes me happy.)
In my marriage, we were good before we got married and now we’re great, married almost 3yrs. As long as you know each other and you know what God has for you (the both of you), there’s nothing that says you’ll “fall apart” when you get married.
I’m sorry if I kind of barged in on your anniversary post, but it bothered me that it sounded like someone’s been telling you negative things about marriage. :( Not all marriages are negative, especially if God’s the core.
Happy Anniversary. :) Nothing wrong with celebrating a half-year; jonathan insisted on celebrating month-by-month for a while ;) hehe
Hope you had a fantastic time on your date.
<3
thanks, erika :)
i don’t mean everything will fall apart, i just mean that things could get really hard once married…that we have expectations going into marriage that might not get met (little ones we don’t even know we have) and to just be sober about it…it’s not pie in the sky happily ever after…idk…i’m reading “love and war” by the eldredges and that’s what i mean :P
i know marriage will be good and joyous too though :)
Ah! That makes much more sense :)
Of course there are things that won’t go as expected, but that’s not because of marriage – that’s life. ;)
The thing about marriage is, even when those things don’t go the way you wanted them to, you always have that other person that’s going through this with you and you can both rely on God.
It’s a pretty good system ;)
I agree with Erika…Justin and I have certainly gone through our share of struggles, but I don’t believe it was ever about the marriage per se, just situations that life throws at us…
…I think there certainly will be challenges (this is very normal in any marriage!), as you two learn to grow and build a life together, but it doesn’t have to be sh*t hitting the fan.
We work extremely hard at our marriage and it definitely pays off! He is my best friend, the best husband I could ask for, and an amazing father to our daughter. I can wholeheartedly say I continue to love and fall deeper in love with him more each day.