Re: Happy Hitched up Day to ol Vern and me pic

Posted by HalWA on September 02, 2009 at 16:16:34 from (208.81.157.90):

In Reply to: Happy Hitched up Day to ol Vern and me pic posted by granny h on September 02, 2009 at 07:34:24:

Congratulations!!! Glad you both found a good one. No one, male or female should have to put up with being hit by their spouse.

I got lucky too. My wife and I will soon celebrate 30 years, and I don't know how I could be happier. She had been married before and had 3 little kids when I met her, and lots of people said our relationship would never last. We proved them wrong.

Both of us have changed a bunch, but we have changed in such a way that we have become closer together. We had 2 more kids together, and while I had stepchildren in the beginning, now we just have 5 children. They are all mine, as I have helped raise them. All 5 are doing well, all have college degrees that they mostly paid for themselves, and all are working at jobs they like.

I think my wife was worried about how things would be after we retired, but it is just great. We usually do our own things during the day and then enjoy spending the evenings together. We have a great time with our 7 grandchildren, who we see a lot.

It hasn't all been roses. For the first part of our marriage, we were pretty poor and were really crowded in our old single wide mobile home with an addition I built. Things go a lot better when our little kids all got into school and my wife found a good job. We dug ourselves out of the debt hole we had fallen into and later built a nice, new house, unfortunately not before the oldest kids had grown up.

Our oldest daughter gave us, and especially me some trouble in her teen years. I had grown up in a family where you just didn't sass Dad, and you did what you were told, and I had trouble understanding that Patti didn't seem to understand those concepts. We got through it, but looking back, I wish I had been less hard on her. It would have been better and easier for both of us. We have a good relationship now, and I believe Patti is a wonderful mother. It is interesting to hear my words coming out of Patti's mouth when she talks to her kids.

I thank God for giving me my family...it is a good life!

All the best to you and Vern. And thank you for posting your thoughts. It was nice!

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