I graduate on June 3rd from my academy. Time has been passing by quickly.

I was able to fly home earlier in the month, to visit my wife and daughter. They're doing good, and it was a great feeling to be back home with the family, even if it was only for a day.

Today is our anniversary. It's hard not being there with my wife, but I'm counting down the days until I graduate. 

We've been together for years. Since 2008. 

I thought I'd blog about marriage in general during my lunch break 😅. 

I think its hard now days to have a lasting marriage, and it really does take work and the willingness of both partners to stay committed to eachother. 

I can name a handful of times when I was either seduced, or someone knew I was married but didn't care, or where I accidentally put off the wrong signals that led someone to pursue me. There's a lot of temptation out there, but it's easy to stay grounded when you love your family, and when you've lived enough to learn, no the grass usually isn't greener. 

Ive seen it often in the lives of others, enough to see the destruction or depression. I've also almost lost my wife by making a huge mistake, and the time we spent apart taught me, I can't be happy without her in my life.

I know my wife. I know every aspect of her, and I know that she's the best woman I've ever met or will meet in my lifetime. Her kindness, her willingness to forgive, her happiness she spreads, her big heart, her intelligence, her personality and how she is always thinking of others before herself--

She has qualities that I admire and it challenges me to be a better person.

I've dated here and there prior to my marriage... enough to know that people aren't always what they want you to think they are or how they present themselves to you. Sometimes it's just a facade. They act and say all the right things because they know that's what will get you to give them a chance... but when you really get to know them, they're not that person they led you to believe they were. 

I think it takes a minimum of 2 years to really get to know a person, thoroughly, and to decide if they're a good fit for you or not, and if they're a genuine person. 

I've been with partners who claimed to like all the things I liked, or changed themselves to be what they think I'm into. 

What I like about my wife, is that she's real. She's strongly opinionated about what she's into and what she's not into and she doesn't conform to fit in. She's her authentic self. 

She's funny, lively, weird, cool, faithful, religious, and a woman that I know isn't using me. She was with me when I had nothing, and hopefully will continue to be with me for the rest of our lives. 

Younger women may come around, or older, or even prettier, or whatever the case, but I have no interest. My heart belongs to her. Everyone else pales in comparison.

When your heart knows, it knows, and nothing can take that love away. 

Happy Anniversary Jennie! Miss you~

Heres to many, many more years to come🌷

My Angel♡