I remember the early days of my relationship with my wife.
Those days and years that we had first met and gotten to know each other as
college kids at San Diego State University. It’s funny how that many days all I could think about was
spending more time with that girl. Classes, friends, work all seemed to fade
into the background; each extra second with her was second well spent. Fifteen years later and much has
changed. I no longer want to spend every moment with this woman and there are
even days when she drives me nuts. She is far from the perfect woman I met in
college and to be fair I’m not longer the perfect man. Fifteen years later and I still love
this woman every bit as much, if not more, than those early days in our
relationship. There is a reason in
marriage vows the words “for better or WORSE” appear. I’m fortunate that the mountain tops are much more frequent
than the dark valleys in our relationship but those valleys are so important in
allowing me to appreciate the views from atop those peaks. Many things weather
with time, looking at my wife the other day I realized she is not one of those
things, she has been unchanging…..actually, I take that back, she has changed
but for the better. Even the
physical beauty of her youth does not compare to refined model I have
today. My regret is that I have
not been a better husband sometimes. I will keep trying and she will keep
loving me. In the middle of our
life its obvious our focus has shifted to kids, careers and hustle bustle. I
enjoy our quiet times together that much more. I hope someday to return to spending more and more time
together when we both have even more years behind us. She will be with me for eternity so I worry little about it
right now. God created Eve for
Adam and he gave me Gina. I love my life and my wife for better or worse.
Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands,
love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…”
