First of all: there are no secrets.
Don and I will be celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary this October. We have been blessed with 20 very happy years, 10 years of just keeping our heads above water and 5 pretty miserable years.
It's not the happy years that make a marriage. Happy is easy. You just take life as it comes and coast along. I have learned to enjoy the happy years as a reward for all the struggles and hardships that we've been through.
While happy years are the ideal, it's the struggling years that really make a marriage. It's the financial, emotional and medical hardships that can crush a marriage and test it's character. In this age of disposable marriages, it's all too easy to call it quits when the going gets tough. It 
takes strength, dedication and allot of hard work to overcome challenges in a marriage and fierce determination to make it work.
takes strength, dedication and allot of hard work to overcome challenges in a marriage and fierce determination to make it work. Don and I have had our struggles and we will continue to face many more. I am proud of what we have built together and the mutual respect and devotion we have for one another. Thirty-five years of love, laughter and many tears have brought us closer together.
No secrets here.
3 comments:
I have heard it said that difficulty and trials will either bring a couple closer together or drive them apart. Marriage is a difficult thing but it is a blessing to see couples like you and Don, proving that it can be done! An early congrats on your 35th!
P.S. We just had our 4th, we have a ways to go!
You are so right on the Happy part!!
It is easy. Definitely, the struggles and difficulty drives the
commitment....Congrats to you both!
We are coming up to 17 this October.
Blink and another 10 will go by like that!!
Mary
It's friends like all of you that help me get through the tough times. Love you! L
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