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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Not the PP you're quoting, but my husband and I have a very similar relationship..  Except, we do have one child.  So no, I don't think that you lose your whole world because you still have a family, but I do know, that when he dies, a large part of my heart will be missing.

[b]It sounds morbid (it's really not) but we have those "cute" little arguments occasionally about which one of us is going to die first, many many years from now of course..[/b] Of course this is all jokingly.  In all actuality, I imagine that we'll be one of those couples that goes one shortly after the other.

But, think about it, we married when we were 20, got together at 18, and knew each other for about 8-9 years prior to that.  We have been together for our whole adult lives, and known each other long before that.  So one of us losing the other will be devastating, and there's no getting around that.[/quote]

Not the PP quoted, but this is us, too!  I tell him that if he thinks he's having a stroke to push me in front of a bus, to which he replies, "Whoops, only indigestion..."

Seriously, though, if your partner is your best friend and someone you've known since you were 17, of course you are going to be devastated.  Just like people are devastated every day when they lose parents, siblings, cousins, and childhood best friends.  It doesn't make you a weenie to admit that or to hope it won't happen for a very long time.  I won't curl up and die, but it seems likely that I won't remarry (but I'm an introvert, so the thought of life on my own is not horrible even while the thought of life without DH is very sad).

I am not religious, so I don't believe God sent DH to me, but I do marvel at the ways in which we are mirrors for each other.  If we're able to see it, we each offer the other the insight or example that we lack in our own experience just when we need it.  That's not something you throw away because the sex gets spotty when you have a young child (for example).[/quote]

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