Happy Anniversary

Today marks my parents' thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. It would also be my mother-in-law's sixty-eighth birthday, at the time of her death, she and my father-in-law had been married forty-five years. It seems somewhat amazing, in this day and age, that both my husband and I have parents who were married to each other until death parted them. And while there were differences in how my parents and my in-laws approached various aspects of marriage (say division of labor, conflict resolution, and child-rearing) both sets of parents set an incredible example of the essentials. Without any doubt, they showed my husband and I how to be committed to each other, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, as long as we both shall live.