Oh boy! Here we are! In the month some people love and some people hate!!!
In my family, it’s a fairly busy month. My mom and sister each have a birthday this month. My sister’s gets celebrated with the whole world because she’s a Valentine baby. While birthdays are very special, we have an even bigger event in this month, bigger than Valentine’s Day!!!
My parents will be celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary this month!!!!!! That’s a crazy thing to hear in today’s society. Their story started fifty-nine years ago when they met on a blind date. A couple of dates later and they were eloping. They’ve been together every since!!
Wow! What a fairy tale!!! I believed in the fairy tale because of them. I knew that if they could find their true love so easily, then so could I. But, that’s not how my story went and to be honest I have a story tucked away that is titled The “F”d Up Fairy Tale” because I was so unhappy and depressed in how my first marriage and part of life were going (sorry kids). Eventually, my spouse and I ended what we knew wasn’t there anymore and went our own way. Along my way, I found my fairy tale.
You see, what I don’t always share about my current relationship is that my current husband was prayed for. As I began to do what I needed to fix my life, I began praying about a true, genuine partner in my life. Someone whom I could actually share life with in the way you are supposed to as a couple.
We were friends and writing partners on lyrics before we became a couple. Our relationship came about naturally and just seemed right. Over the course of two years, we would do the couple things I had been praying for. I did my best not to push marriage but, I became hungry for it the more I realized he was my knight. He was the one that was changing my mindset about the fairy tale being messed up and he was the one I had been praying for. I knew he was the one, but I had to wait so impatiently on him.
He did finally propose and we’ve been happily married for almost three years now. Yes! I said happily! Happily because we know how to communicate with each other in a way that always comes to a solution rather than a disagreement and hurt feelings. We always find a way through whatever we are dealing with together. We are truly partners in life!
I think that is the fairy tale my parents relationship actually represents. They have mastered how to communicate with each other and work through things together. If you don’t have that, you won’t have a solid foundation. I learned that the hard way, but I have it now and I am not sorry to say this…the fairy tale is real and I am living it!!!!
