JEFF & I WHEN WE WERE PRONOUNCED HUSBAND AND WIFE!
Wedded Bliss! What does that mean exactly? After doing some research and thinking I came up with married with perfect happiness and serene joy. Now does anyone live everyday of their married life perfectly happy? I would have to say no. I would like to think we could all have marriages like in movies and on TV, but I am afraid that is just not so. A marriage is full of high points and low points and while in the last 14 years of marriage I can honestly say that while we have had a lot of low points, they have mostly been high points. I am so happy with my life and my husband. It may not be perfect and it may not be where I want my life to be but we together are working on it and one day we will be where we picture our lives.
So for a look back over the past 14 years, it all started on a Friday evening where we were to get married around 7pm by a Justice of the Peace. I had spoken to him earlier in the day and everything was set, so I thought. He never showed! While Jeff and I both are Christians and were brought up that way, we are of different denominations and I did not want to get married in a Catholic Church and he did not want to get married in a Pentecostal church (he says they scare him LOL). I broke out in hives as we tried to reach someone to come marry us. My preacher was with his son while his wife was out so he couldn’t come. Luckily a very dear friend’s cousin was a preacher, and me broken out in hives and Jeff trying to slice his throat with a razor shaving (ha-ha they so say that marriage is a man’s funeral right?). So she called and he agreed to come and marry us. So at around 9:45p I was able to walk my dad down the aisle (instead of him walking me ROFL), as he was very very drunk. So finally around 10p I became Mrs. Leslie McGuinn. I was 19 and Jeff was on the cusp of 19. He turned 19 the next day (27th). I know many people said it wouldn’t last and that we would be divorced within 6 months. However, I knew the day that I met Jeff that he was the one, my soul mate, the one that was meant for me to spend the rest of my life with. Yes we rushed but that is ok because we just wanted to be married and begin our life together. We have come so far since that young and naïve couple. But we are more in love today than ever before.
We almost divorced after 5 ½ years but we found our way back to each other and ever since our relationship has taken new shape and meaning. We have been threw a lot and managed to make it through it all stronger and closer than before. I think the point in our relationship that changed us and matured us was in 2002 after 6 years of marriage when our daughter was born at 24 wks. We learned a lot about life and ourselves and our marriage during her 176 day NICU stay. We learned to be patient with each other, to communicate with each other, to be each other rock, to be each other’s best friend. We hoped together, we prayed together, we cried together and we laughed together then and we still do now. We have brought our 2 lives together as one. We have a partnership, a relationship. We are lovers, best friends and parents. We have in the past year added a 4th member to our family when in March we had our son. Him and I almost died and had we not have been at the hospital we would have and I am so blessed to be here today celebrating today and every day the life that I have and the love that I share with a wonderful man, husband and father. I am extremely happy that 14 years ago I married my soul mate and best friend to share the ups and downs of our lives. While I am sure we will have many more low points in our life together, I know that we can make it through stronger and closer than ever before.
**Jeff, I love you with all my heart and soul. Not a day goes by that I do not think God for you. You are my rock, my lover, my heart, my soul and most importantly my best friend. I am forever yours and so very proud to be your wife and the mother of your children. May we have many more miracles, blessings, laughs and happy memories together!
JEFF & I TODAY AFTER 14 YEARS OF MARRIAGE!
Still happy with each other and still in love after all these years!!
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