How time flies – before you know it, 15 years have passed since I married my beautiful and amazing wife, the best person I’ve ever known.
We met exactly 21 years ago, just 30 meters from my house, next to a tree that I can still see from my living room window.
She was there with her sister, talking to a neighbor.
Luckily, at that exact moment, I was driving to the center to pick up some essentials from a nearby store.
The neighbor stopped me and asked if I wanted to join him, my now-wife, and her sister for coffee.
Of course, I said yes because I liked her at first sight.
Later, they asked me to give them a ride home, and that’s when it all started.
After dropping them off, I mustered up the courage to ask for the phone number of the sweet, shy girl who had caught my eye.
From that point on, everything just naturally fell into place – or rather, into our path.
We were together for a little over five years before getting engaged, and shortly after that, we got married on December 12, 2009 – a very cold day.
Now, 15 years later, we’re still happily married, though we’ve had our fair share of arguments, as is normal in any marriage. Without those little disagreements, it wouldn’t feel quite right. Even after all these years, we’re still like two teenagers in love.
This year, as in the last three, we celebrated at the Gastro Italiano restaurant in Šibenik. I told the owner, whom I know well, about our anniversary and asked if he could organize a little surprise. And he did!
After the main course and before dessert, live music came to our table – two guitars and a tamburica. They played about ten love songs just for us. It was absolutely beautiful, and the entire restaurant joined in, singing along with us and the musicians.
I hope there will be many more anniversaries like this one and that we’ll keep celebrating them for years to come.
