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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blissfully married 16 years this June, together 19 years, high school sweethearts.  We are madly, passionately in love, moreso every day, best friends, so happy.

Different cultures, ethnicities, temperaments, socioeconomic statuses, and faiths when we first fell in love.  Now we share a faith, and that is the key to our happiness.  We are open to children, mutually supportive in our roles in the family, and absolutely loyal to one another.

[b]We are "each the other's world entire."[/b][/quote]

Yikes!  What are you gonna do when one of you dies?  Lose your whole world?  [/quote]

Actually, since my husband is military, I have faced mortality more realistically than most.

While he was deployed, I accidentally received his "last letter home" when it was mistakenly put in the mail, so I saw what would have been his last words to me.  He spoke of suffering, faith, sanctification, and redemption.  He asked my forgiveness and understanding, and reminded me that we don't get to choose our crosses.  He asked me to love him by loving our children, and to seek the graces I would need to live until we met again.

If I lost him, I would lose my whole world, because we became "one flesh" a long time ago.  But if that were my cross, I would pick it up.

I've been thinking of what little things we have learned along the way, and they are not too hard, though sometimes it seems like few couples do them nowadays:

--We are polite to each other, with common courtesies, compliments, gratitude, small favors.  Never insults.

--We are very affectionate physically.  All the time.  Every day.  I won't get too explicit, but you can use your imagination.  Generous lovers to one another...

--forgiveness, patience

--We truly seek "the good" for one another.  We help each other to increase virtues and conquer vices.

--prayer, confession, spiritual direction

We've come a long way.  I would never, ever want to be 20 year old newlyweds again, even if I could get that body back.  I love who we are to each other now.

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