Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

Fall {a marriage post}

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One glance at the word and I’m transported back to 2007 and I hear Clay Walker crooning from the stereo of my “new” green Chevy Malibu.

Fall
Go on and fall apart
Fall into these arms of mine 
I’ll catch you
Everytime you fall
Go on and lose it all
Every doubt, every fear,
Every worry, every tear,
I’m right here
Baby fall

It was that time in my life when listening to country music on the radio was very much my way of expressing myself – I was really something now that I had my own car, a job, and a soldier boyfriend.

But so many times I found myself disappointed when said soldier-boyfriend didn’t live up to the ideals that Clay Walker sang about.

Those arms of his were over 1000 miles away and so many times our phonecalls wrecked me with disappointment.

We were learning how to love each other. And it was a school of hard knocks.

kissing

Now six years later I wake up beside him, and even though my dreams were filled with some of the worst fears about our marriage, they weren’t true.

And 20 minutes later he was bringing me coffee.

The truth is that there is still a lot of disappointment. It’s not always perfect. We still fight.

We are still learning how to love each other.

But it’s good just to have him. To have him here. To be able to fall apart with him and have it be okay. To let him fall apart with me.

It’s not a perfect country song.

But it’s us. And it’s enough.

anniversary cake 6

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Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for five minutes. “No editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s topic is “Fall.” (Photos were edited and added after the five minutes of writing.)

3 Comments

  • Tam

    Enough is all it can ever be. And yes, even though I love my wife, each day I am learning to love her. She is a great teacher and often holds the mirror up to me and each day is an opportunity to move forward, learn and love deeper. Beautiful post.

  • Marriage Girl

    Hi Aprille,
    Thanks for the info, I read these post about women who married a guy who does not care for them. I wonder how may women passed on a guy who loved them and married the bad boy thinking the guy would changer even after kids….

    Also I have been reading post about other who are too hard on their spouse thinking that they need to be the perfect spouse or handle things a certain way like in the movies or something but when they fall short they dump them like they were dating or something.

    Why do people toss away marriages so fast?
    I look forward to your next post

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