Day 8 of 365...

Day 8 of 365... Thankful for the wisdom of couples who have chosen 'forever' together...



To the left, are Brandon's grandparents, who celebrated 65 years of marriage last week. To the right, are my grandparents, who married at only 16, never stopped loving each other, and chose to spend their senior days together, until my Papaw went to be with the Lord a few years ago. 

The wisdom, life experience, and advice of couples like this is priceless to me. I could sit for hours upon hours and listen to these couples talk about marriage, the struggles, and choices they made along the way to get to where they are in life together. They are the best kind of role models.

In my life I have seen too many marriages that fell apart, for whatever reasons. Some valid, and some that just didn't make any sense at all. I think too often in today's world that when things get tough people tend to just quit, rather than 'keep on truckin' and stick it out. It makes me sad. Granted there are some instances where I understand the choice people make to end their marriage, but for me personally, my husband and I have chosen to stick it out and make things work.

Do we love each other? Absolutely. Do we drive each other insane at times? Without a doubt! Have their been times when we wanted to punch each other in the face and run as far away from each other as possible? I'd be lieing if I said no. But even on those days when I was so mad at him that I couldn't look at him, there was still no one else in the world that I wanted to talk to.  But we love each other and we love our children and we have chosen to work through the hard times. And we hope to one day celebrate 65 years of marriage together; to sit in our home one day and enjoy our grandchildren together; to one day be 'that couple' who can pass down the same wisdom of our grandparents to our children and grandchildren that I so appreciate today.