Living the married life and loving it.

In today’s society marriage appears to be a non-binding contract.  According to divorcerate.org The divorce rate in America for first marriage, vs second or third marriage 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri.  Since only half of the people that marry stay married and it gets progressively  worse on the second and third try it has caused me to contemplate why people keep doing it.  For me once is enough.  I found the perfect person for me and I never intend to let her go.

There is no doubt in my mind as to why I have stayed married to my Sweet Heart Julie for over thirty years now.  The reason is simple she has figured out a way to make me love her more each day. This is not a recent revelation or some new phenomenon.  I have been smitten with her since I first met her and pursued her with reckless abandon until she agreed to marry me.    Sorry I don’t have some magic formula that she uses to make me love her more and more to share with you.  There is no one thing that she does to make me love her more each day.  I guess it is just the fact that I know she loves me more than anyone else possibly could.  It is the fact that I know for a certainty that she is my biggest supporter.

I think a better question would be why she has put up with me for all of these years.  Honestly I couldn’t answer that question. Maybe she will reply to this post and let you know.  For now I can only speak for myself.  So here is my best guess.  It is that she knows that I love her more and more each day.  If you are reading this, you may be wondering how I know that she knows how much I love her?  The answer to that one is easy, “I tell her.”  I do that  just in case my actions don’t reflect my true feelings.

So what is the amazing milestone.

Those of you that know me well might be thinking that it is the fact that Julie has stuck with me for over thirty years.  If that is what you are thinking you would be wrong!  I have to pay homage to those that have set the example for Julie and I.  Both my parents and Julie’s parents are celebrating Fifty years of marriage this year and are looking forward to many more.  I want to congratulate both sets of parents Dick and Lynn Putnam and Dick and Myrna Pickett.  Thank you for setting such a great example for us.