Anniversary

Today we celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. Back before we were married, as part of the required "marriage process" at our church we went to a couple of counseling sessions with our minister prior to the Big Day. During those few sessions we learned that while we are completely different in personality we have the same goals.

I was labeled a "feeler" and Jeff a "thinker" which basically means that when approaching a situation, I am going to look at how it makes me feel whereas Jeff will consider all the different aspects of it. It's because we are so different in our approach to things & situations, that we work so well together, especially since we are almost always trying to get the same result. This information has proven to be invaluable, and has solved many arguments before they were even begun because we understand where the other is coming from.

We have come to know each other extremely well, to the point where Jeff can go into a store and pick out a perfume that he knows I will like (and I love it). His second choice being one I actually already had (no he didn't cheat - he didn't know the name of the one I wore previously). He was also able to pick a pair of earrings for me to replace the ones that Norah destroyed that were exactly what I would have chosen. We didn't discuss it ahead of time, but since Norah had ruined my pair of gold hoops, he decided to replace them as my anniversary gift. We both looked into the same drawer, and picked out the same pair without prior discussion.

For some people six years is a short amount of time, for others, much longer. We have been through so much together but it has made us stronger individually and as a couple. Hopefully this will serve us well as parents too.