Can you say “Happy Happy Happy” Anniversary! Well I can as today my beautifully kind and amazing wife and I celebrate our anniversary.
Time really does fly when you are happily married. I do remember some not so easy moments but they are like dust in the wind compared to the years together. We started young at a mere age of 20. Young, excited and ready to start on our own, we were married 27 years ago today, January 3rd 1987.
Over the 27 years, we have celebrated the birth of three wonderful and healthy children. Watched as they grew, played Nacogdoches Baseball, NYSA Soccer and been part of the Nacogdoches Dragon Band.
We started a business from nothing, basically working out of a closet in one of our rented homes. The business has always been part of our family and close to our hearts. A strong sense of family has been important to us and the business allows us to share this passion by capturing those special moments for others.
Since its January and such a great month for tips, I though I would pass along my tips for my happy marriage.
1. Love your spouse more than yourself. Easy to say but putting self in anyplace other than first is difficult. When self is at least second, then in my opinion it allows for you to be joined together as one.
2. Realize that there will be bumps, hills and sometimes mountains to climb in life. Work, bills, kids can all wear on an otherwise healthy relationship if you let them be first. So go back to my tip No. 1 and make sure your spouse comes before you and the job and the kids and anything else.
3. There are really so many things I could say and have likely over 100 tips. Well this LAST tip is simple. Remember those two words you said during your marriage. You remember? “I DO!” Those two short words in my opinion are a promise. But what were you promising? My vows I promised “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish ’till death do us part.” So my last tip is to remember your promise and be faithful to the best of your ability to live up to that oath.
I would love to hear your story and or comments.
Greg Patterson, Certified Professional Photographer