Marriage: It Gets Better

In a couple of weeks, my husband and I will be celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary. 24 years! Wow! That's almost 25 years, Silver anniversary. I thought silver anniversaries were for old folks, but here we are facing the big silvery milestone together. I guess we are the old folks now. I honestly don't know how we made it here. A young married woman asked me once "When does this marriage business get better?" It didn't take too much thinking to blurt out "It started working after 20 years." Marriage is a hard work! Marriage is a hard work. Yes, it is. Good marriage doesn't just happen neither. It takes SO much work. When I first got married, I expected my husband to love me no matter what, do everything for me without me having to ask, put me before himself, that his world would evolve around my needs and desires, while being successful in his career so that I don't have to worry about money or anything like that. And when our first b...