Love and Marriage

Trent and I are being featured today over at the always awesome So Wonderful, So Marvelous blog! She’s doing a super fun series on marriage and asked us to answer some of her questions on how we maintain such a picturesque union. I told her it was the abundance of breakfast sandwiches. Trent agreed. See? We’re meant to be!

Truthfully, we have worked pretty hard at our marriage, especially in the last year or so, and I can confidently say I’ve never been happier. I know that a huge part of this came from my whole “journey to be happy” and making real decisions to make my relationship a good one. Trent and I have really done the work (and yes, it is work) and the payoff has come in spades. When I look at who we are now, compared to where we were as 19 year old college kids (volatile, dramatic, passionate, slightly bonkers) or even 23 year old first time parents/newlyweds or, hell, even 27 year old professionals, I am amazed we made it through. So many times we could have jumped off this ship and left it to sink, but every time we found ourselves clinging to lifeboats, doggie paddling for each other.

Here’s to doggie paddling for many more decades…

For more of the So Wonderful, So Marvelous marriage series, click here!

{Photo by Nicole Coleman}