March Challenge: My Wife
This is in response to the March challenge put on by Patricia Feager and Lew Corcoran
There’s something incredibly special about the person who changes the course of your life. For me, that person is my wife. We met our senior year in high school, on a bus ride to Disney World for our senior trip. Florida was magical, but what stands out the most was not the park or the bands they brought in, like Night Ranger and J. Geils Band, but the moment I saw her. We locked eyes on the bus, and something unspoken passed between us. It was something undeniably special.
We held hands getting off the bus, and from there, we spent the rest of the summer together. She was my high school sweetheart, even though we met the last week of school our senior year. We had many of the same friends, but we had never met. The girl who taught me about innocence and young love. Unfortunately, life had other plans, and we parted ways after high school for about 18 years.
But fate has a funny way of bringing people back together. Our paths crossed again at a Britney Spears concert with our daughters in tow, both of us at a crossroads in life and navigating our own divorces. We started out just as friends, trying to help each other get through tough times, but ultimately, both of us ended up divorced. That’s when we began to see each other, and I couldn’t be more thankful.
Over time, we started seeing each other and we built a life together. This year, we celebrate 22 years of being together, 21 of them married, but knowing each other 42 years! I had offered her to get married anywhere in the world and she picked where we met, Disney.
My wife is my rock. She knows me better than I know myself, and through every storm, she’s been there. She is my light on a dark day. She’s been a big part of shaping who I am today: honest, sincere, and forthright, sometimes to a fault (that’s me, not her). She’s a woman with a fierce sense of write and wrong and a loyalty like no one I’ve ever met. But most of all, she’s taught me how to always make sure the people around me are happy and to do right by others. I don't always listen to her, but most of the time, she's right. Just don't tell her I said that!
I can’t imagine life without her. She’s my everything.
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