Tell me about the day you met your spouse. Do you remember the details, the little moments, the time it took you to say hello? I bet that you do. It's simple, in a way, the way things happen. You see someone attractive and you think, "Maybe, just maybe..."
At that very moment, what are they thinking of you? Did they think anything of you at all? You will laugh one day, at your wedding, about how she thought you were cute, but a weirdo. You will say, come on, you loved me the minute you met me! It's that banter that get's you through the first few years (yes, years). Then you get to know one another better and better, as time passes, you spend time together.
One day, probably just after you're married, you'll have your first argument. You'll think, "It's all over."
Then you talk to one another, you realize that what you have is worth much more than any number of disagreements could ever break apart. Sure, at the beginning it is hard to see, but if you committed to the right person; you'll find your way through it.
Your first argument will become a thing of legend twenty years on, when your children ask about how you ever got together. How did you meet Mom? They'll ask, even though you can remember each moment like it was yesterday... Your memory becomes fuzzy, when you get older and you will count on one another to finish the story.
And at the end of it all, you will hold one another's hands just one last time, recalling your lives together and how you made one another laugh so hard that you cried. You will repeat the "family" jokes that somehow lasted all of these years later. How the kids talked when they were babies, the vacations that you all shared, how learning to cook for two people again, after everyone else moved away, had taken so long. The pets that you had along the way.
If you are lucky, they'll fall asleep with you holding their hand tightly. They will kiss your forehead one last time as they weep; because the one person that has been a constant in their lives is now gone.
So, just think about it for a moment, any one or everyday spent together will be a source of affection and can be extraordinary if you let it.
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