Yes, Young Love Can Last

Yesterday while at a doctor appointment for our 6 week old baby my husband and I found ourselves blushing a bit when the doctor gushed over the fact that my husband and I look so young, too young she said to have been married for 17 years now. I mentioned that young love can last. The kind older doctor gave a sweet smile. I wonder if perhaps it didn’t for her. I know growing up my husband and I got a lot of criticism for our choice to get married when I was 18 and he was 21 but we found true love and didn’t want to wait to start our family. We both craved a family that was intact. He grew up with just his mother and grandmother and they had passed on before we had met. My parents had divorced when I was young and while both remarried I wanted a stable family of my own. Neither one of us wanted to wait and the commitment sounded like a fairy tale.

 Marriage isn’t supposed to be easy!

Most things worth doing are not easy and this is true of marriage. What helps I think is crazy blind romance. My husband is a hopeless romantic. Even when we are neck deep in stressful adventures he finds ways to saying or doing the most romantic things. They might not seem romantic to some, like a simple car ride in the woods on a day where my mood is dark but they are.

 Anniversaries Matter

My husband says the most loving things and always has but specially on anniversaries. Since the age of social media he tends to post them in public. We didn’t have a large wedding but some how his public vows on these special days means so much to me. I try to be just as romantic but I have to admit, he is the poet in our relationship! I need help coming up with ideas on anniversaries. How he puts up with me I will never really know. He says so much but it really is like a fairy tale these last 17 years as far as our love goes.

 Marriage Advice

Never stop learning about one another. People change and marriage has to change with them. Often people say that they have grown apart but the key is to grow together even while exploring different interests. Make joint interest though a priority! Remember it is you two against the world, or even better, you too making the world better!