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50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!!

As my husband and I approach our golden anniversary, so many thoughts and memories from our 50 years together come through my mind like an endless movie reel.  We’ve spent almost an entire lifetime together.  I’m just completely amazed that that much time has gone by.

We started this journey together quite young, especially by today’s standards.  But things were different back then.  We were more mature and ready to start a life together.  We were also quite independent and determined to be self-sufficient.  

I think about this long road we’ve been traveling for 50 years and how very far we’ve come.  We’ve both changed during this time, growing together as a couple.  You can’t help but change and rub off on each other in all those years.  And hopefully we've picked up some of each other’s best traits and qualities.  I’m the yin to his yang and we seem to balance each other out.

It would be most unusual to get through this lifetime without experiencing some hardships and difficult times.  It’s the fact that we did get through them, walking out of the darkness back into the sunlight that helped strengthen us as a couple and make the good times taste even sweeter.  The truly wondrous things we’ve experienced together have brought us unbelievable happiness and joy in our lives.

When I sat next to my husband at our nephew’s wedding recently, I thought about what words and their meanings I think are so very important as you live your life together.  Love is above all number one.  The others are:  Trust, Integrity, Respect, Communication, Compromise, and Laughter.

And so, hand-in-hand, our journey continues together, still sharing great new adventures, facing whatever lies ahead.