Anniversary

[lissalou]

At 9 am on this day last year, I was in Oxford at La Mystique watching my mom stick my wedding veil into my chignon. I had Madeline L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light sitting on my lap, and I was worried that I was going to trip over my dress as I walked down the aisle. Jeff was with the photographer having his portraits done, and I was missing him

Comments

[yishnir]

No one thought would last? You two seem perfect together.

[lissalou]

Thanks!
Actually, I was probably the first one to think that we'd never make it. (I predicted that it would take no more than three months for me to lose interest or for him to run screaming.) I certainly wasn't the last, and a lot of well-meaning friends and relatives told me I was crazy, that we made no sense together, etc.
None of it was ill-intentioned. I was an over-achiever with commitment issues and he was a slacker that wasn't good at "emotional stuff." We don't look so good on paper! Luckily, things have a way of working out how they're supposed to, whether you think they will or not.

[yishnir]

After seeing the two of you together, this description seems surreal.

[lissalou]

Well, we'd been together for 3 years before we met you, so I'd like to think we'd worked out the worst of the kinks before then. I know that I settled down a whole lot once I realized that I could actually trust the guy I'd fallen for.
And I've gotta say, it is nice to hear someone say that we make a nice couple. Everyone did at the wedding, of course, but most of those were the same people who were telling us we were crazy 5 years before!

[celticsuncat]

Happy anniversary and hopes for many, many more. :)