I have a wonderful e-book that tells me what holidays and observances take place during the year, and discovering that April is Couples Appreciation Month was a fun find, because this month my husband and I celebrate 31 years as a couple…we dated for 7 months before we married on April 7th of 1979.
This past weekend we went away to celebrate in Lancaster, PA, remembering both our anniversary and Easter, or Resurrection Sunday as we like to call it. It was God who brought us together, after all, through a friend who invited me to come back and visit a church I had attended during High School. At that point 7+ years had passed since I had been to the church, and when I went and was invited to a get-together after, I met the man who would be my husband. He had moved here from Colorado on business, and worked only a block away from me. It took a couple of months for us to start dating, but after our first date, we were inseparable, and have been ever since.
Here’s to other couples that have been together for years because of your commitment to love one another and work through the challenges of life, through thick and thin, or as we said in our vows, “for better or for worse”. We’ve had both in our marriage, the “better” makes life fun, the “worse” makes a relationship stronger if you work through the challenges and come out on the other side.
