41 years!
I think if you had asked us back then we would have told you we’d be together forever. We were only 19 – young and in love and ready to take on all of life’s challenges.
In these 41 years we have faced a lot of those challenges head on – stubbornly holding on to whatever tangible threads there were – WILLING ourselves to keep on. It was tougher at some times than others.
But the good times outweigh the “bad” times – and the Joys certainly outweigh the sorrows. There is a yin-yang thing that happens in any marriage. There is give and take. There is person A and person B (in our case – that is literal – Art & Barbara)
Throughout the years we have had times when you have been stronger and times when I have been stronger. And – in our strengths we helped the other become stronger.
I don’t know if we have another 41 years in us (good Lord! Think of how old we’d be then!) but I know we have today. And for that I am thankful.
Happy anniversary, Art. I love you.
your Barbie