My wife and I will be celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday. Following our wedding, I wrote about some more memorable moments and posted them on a blog that no longer exists.
As our anniversary approaches, I’ve decided to re-post some of those wedding memories here to preserve them and share them with readers.
Here is the next of these posts:
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Before Elysha and I started dating, we talked on the phone a lot and hung out together. Those pre-dating rituals that many couples experience.
Late one night, we were chatting on the phone, and the topic of our getting together came up. We work together in the same school, so Elysha asked me what our principal might say if we started dating. Since I had previously been dating someone in the school, I told her what he had already said to me a few months ago:
Dating is fine. Just be sure you can still work together when and if it ends.
Being the master of the break-up, the previous relationship ended just fine.
Still friends to this day.
When I related what our principal (who would one day marry us) had said, Elysha responded, “Oh, that won’t be a problem for us. If we start dating, we’re never breaking up.”
Most astonishing, she didn’t say this to be cute or coy. She said it like it was a fact. We had yet to kiss or even hold hands, but somehow she could already see our future together. My heart fluttered a bit, and I asked her why she thought this was true.
“I just know,” she said. “I just know that we’d be together forever.”
I often think about that night, particularly this week, as I lie in bed beside my wife for less than a month.
I don’t know how she knew, but she did. And I couldn’t be happier.
My wife is one smart cookie.
