Marriage is hard. It’s hard because life is hard. Because relationships are hard.
My Love and I are celebrating a decade of marriage today, and I mean CELEBRATING, because honestly, there was a time or two we didn’t know how we’d make it.
I’m dishing out truth today at HVFH about how two broken people kept their marriage from breaking.
Cheers to ten!
Stacy
*Featured image via Canva
REVISIONS OF GRANDEUR 
“But there are also the rare and glorious moments when we truly come alive together — when we’re standing in the sunlight in a ripening garden of things we grew together. ”
Wow. Yes. This.
I wish you and your husband a thousand years more of happiness. (Any more than that might be greedy.)
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Thank you, DLJ! I’m good with a thousand.
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though im not married but still i cud relate to this post because i have seen people struggling to save their marriage
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Thanks for sharing! Timing is great one this one! We always need someone to slap us in the face and remind us of this! Thanks for being the one! Haha! It is definitely a choice everyday!
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Great read and so relatable! We’re at 28, almost 29, and still we have to choose over and over again.
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Married 28 years that is!
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Thank you, Aileen. It’s one thing I wish people spoke about more openly — how much perseverance a marriage really does take. Thanks for letting me know that you can relate too, even after decades together.
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We just passed our 11th anniversary. The first 5 were kinda rocky. We too almost didn’t make it. But here we are now happier and still in love. Great post, Stacy. Great post about bending without breaking.
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Thanks, Eric. I think most marriages have rocky months or rocky years. Seems the strongest of relationships have been put through the ringer more than once! Glad you could relate to this too — thanks for letting me know, friend!
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And like you mentioned in your post, it mostly boils down to communication. We were talking to others but not so much each other. Things couldn’t change until we we started telling each other what we were telling others.
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Absolutely! Communication, and choosing what’s best for the partnership and family despite outside influences.
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Wonderful post, I feel honoured that you have let me into your life in such an honest way, you guys made it, that sure is something worth celebrating!!
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Thank you, friend! It has been a weekend of celebrating with food, friends, and fireworks!
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Absolutely fantastic post. I hope you put this in a book; it’s so honest and true.
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Thank you for the kind encouragement, Ingrid!
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So beautiful and real. I have been married 15 years and I can relate to every word you wrote. Love is hard and marriage is a choice, but it is SO worth it.
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Thank you, my friend. Always worth it, indeed.
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‘Never ceases to amaze me how you put into words….the MANY emotions that go into life! Whenever you compile your writings into a book, I want an autographed copy to pass on to my sons after I have read it over and over in my golden years….and shed many tears while doing so. Thank you for your gift of writing, Stacy!
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You are a kind woman, Donna! Writing from a vulnerable place can feel a bit risky — thank you for supporting me.
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