Twelve years ago today I was standing in a little chapel in the middle of Oklahoma City with a pawn shop ring in my pocket saying I would be with Brian for the rest of my life. The night before he asked me to marry him and I said yes. We looked through the phone book for chapels that needed no notice and had a minister on staff. We had decided to get married the next day and we would stop at nothing to make it happen. We went to the courthouse and got our license, went to the pawn shop and got some rings, went to the clinic and got checked for syphilis (which was apparently the law in order to get married) and went to the chapel to say "I do". It is still one of the greatest days of my life and I can remember every detail like it was yesterday.
There have been times I didn't think we would make it til now but reflecting back today there is no one I would have rather taken this journey with. Neither one of us are perfect but we are perfect for each other. In 12 years we have come to understand what the other needs and expects and we understand that it takes work to fulfill those needs.
I love him more now than I did 12 years ago and I look forward to what the next 12 years will hold. With any luck the kids will have moved out and we will be living in some tropical paradise where it is beautiful all year round! Just dreaming...
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