Happy Ever After

How many stories have you read that all end with the familiar clause, "and they lived happily ever after!"? I am just making a wild guess here, but something tells me the person who first wrote that saying couldn't have been married! Now don't take me wrong here. I am not saying that married life has not been wonderful. It is! To anyone who believes that their life of single-hood is the best there is I definitely recommend married life. The idea of living happily ever after seems like a little stretch of reality.

Being married to the most wonderful woman in the world has made me realize that life can be so amazing and yet so stressful all at the same time. There is nothing like waking up next to the love of your life, on the mattress on the floor, with sounds of a hammer ringing in your ears, and the sun shining through the curtains that are supposed to give you some sort of privacy. Am I happy? Yes! Am I questioning what possessed me to ever consider such an arrangement? Do I wonder what state of mind I must have been in when I agreed to move into such an exciting environment? No, I know the answer. You see I'm in love!

It doesn't really matter what happens over the next few month, or even in the next 100 years. I have chosen to love the most wonderful woman I have ever met. Even when we disagree, even when she steals all the covers, even when I wake up to her alarm for the third time on the same morning, I still love her! And so we will live happily ever after!