Today is a special date. June 29โฆ On this day back in 1984 my Man asked me to "go steady" with Him. Do people even do that anymore? Go steady? I don't know, ๐ but that's what we did back then and have been together ever since. Yep, we have seriously been together for 33 years as of today, and we are 47 years old. ๐๐ฝ Our relationship is a special rarity, and the story actually begins well before 1984.
We met in 2nd grade. 1976. We liked each other immediately even then. Well, I think I mainly liked him at first, but He grew to like me back. ๐ We likened ourselves "girlfriend & boyfriend" then. That year for Christmas I received a little diary as a gift. I proclaimed my love for Him in my 1st journal entry. I wrote all about how our life together would be in the future. "Together forever..." etc. I still have this little diary. It is priceless to me. ๐
We broke up at the end of that school year over some silly playground fight. ๐. Then we reconvened our relationship in 8th grade and from then on became re-smitten with each other.
In high school we dreamed/decided that later when we were married that we would have have identical twin boys and then a daughter. We even picked out their names back then. Besides changing a couple of their first or middle namesโฆ That's exactly how it happened. ๐ณ Our identical twin boys are now 20 and our daughter is 13. ๐๐ฝ
(Me, our dream kids + friend on the far right)
Back then we used to dream of what our future lifestyle would be like. We even visualized specific elements in our future dream home. Like we wanted a glass wall between the master bedroom and bathroom. Weird, sexy, and romantic...I know, but that was part of our dream.
Flash forward to the present - next week we go home shopping in Puerto Rico preparing for our move to there 2018. One place we've seen online, and will look at in person, literally has some of these dreamed of elements! Like a glass wall between the master bedroom and bathroom. I kid you not... ๐ณ the room we fantasized about as teenagers exits(!) in PR and we are going to see if we want to make that space our new home!! ๐๐ฝ
Looking back at the bathroom walls of our teenage dreams ...I think what the glass wall represented back then were the relationship qualities for which we desired. No separation between us. Transparency. No hiding. Everything revealedโฆ Always open, connected and available to one another. This is truly how our relationship is today. ๐๐ฝ
(I'm such a damn poser ๐คฃ๐)
We seem to be magnificent motherfucking manifestors! (Can I say "motherfucking" here?) We've never taken a class on how to do this, we don't do anything special like daily mirror affirmations of positivity...like "gosh darn it I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and people like me...oh and I want a glass bathroom wall!" We just know what we want. We are not afraid to dream big. We listen to the truest callings from the deepest parts of our bellies, and proceed with action towards that. It seems to be working well so far.
Now our relationship has not always been smooth sailing. Don't mean to imply it's been all dream houses and rainbows. There were some VERY rocky years when our twins were young, our differing parental approaches were being tested and reconciled, and we were came near filing bankruptcy due to tons of credit card debt we ran up trying to survive with the babies and each of us starting businesses. But, we've always been smitten with each other and somehow knew we would live our dream life together in the end.
I know we are a little freaky, but we're very happy freaks. ๐ค๐๐ฝ Cheers to many more years of living dreams with You, 