Marriage?

What can I say about it except that it takes a lot of hard work, compromise, patience, and communication to make it last.

I was twenty years old and in college. One day, at lunch time, I was out in the courtyard talking to some of my classmates, by the water fountain, when I noticed my friend Elena on the other side of the yard. I went over to where she was to say hello. She was talking with a mutual friend of ours and her friend John.

I had never seen him there but he seemed to be a good guy. I can’t remember exactly what the conversation was about but we ended up making fun of John.

The bell, finally, rang so we all started walking to our next class which, to my surprise, John and I shared. Yes, I was about to graduate and this guy (John) was in my class this whole time and I never noticed him. How can I not have noticed him? I wondered. I mean, he was a really good looking, funny, intelligent guy. Was I really that into my studies that I didn’t notice the best looking guy in the school was in my class? Anyway, I grabbed my books and went and sat next to him.

The next day we met out in the courtyard, at lunch time and spent the whole lunch hour talking and at the end of class I gave him an 8×10 sheet of paper with my name and phone number written across the whole page and asked him to call me if he wanted. I went home and didn’t think much of it, until he called that same night. We stayed up talking for hours before he asked me if I would go to dinner with him the following week. Of course, I said I would.We agreed to go to dinner on Tuesday so the Monday before, my sister and I went through both our closets looking for the perfect outfit for me to wear. I don’t think I have ever tried on so many outfits in one night.

Tuesday came and I rushed home to get ready for my date. As soon as I finished getting dressed, he showed up. When I walked into the living room, where he was waiting for me, I was surprised to see that he wasn’t wearing his usual jeans and t-shirt. Instead, he was wearing slacks, a button-down, long sleeve, dress shirt, and a vest. Yes, a vest! He looked so handsome and I could not believe I was about to leave the house with him.

He took me to this very nice restaurant, DaVinci’s. We ordered our food, which neither one of us knew what we were ordering because everything was written in Italian. We spent the whole time joking, laughing, and asking each other questions. When we were done eating, I thought he was going to take me back to my house. Instead, he took me to Golf n’ Stuff, were we played video games and then to a Billiard were we played pool and when we were done playing, he took me back home. The whole night was so much fun.

We continued to talk every moment we had available and that Friday night he told me he was going to his parent’s house the next day. They lived in Sierra Vista, which was about two hours away from where we lived, and he asked if I would like to go with him to spend the day with them and I said I would.

His whole family was so nice. We spent the whole day getting to know each other and going to different places.

The next weekend, he picked me up at home to drive me to my graduation. This is when he met my grandparent’s. After the ceremony my family was taking me to dinner and my grandmother asked him to come with us. He was so shy around everyone but I had a great time non-the-less.

I ended up moving in with him the following weekend and married him about four weeks later, in July. In December he suspected the college was going through financial hardship and when he went back, after winter break, the school had shut down. John truly believes that the whole purpose for the school was so that he and I would meet.

We have been married for almost eleven years now. I wish I could say that we will be married forever and that everything will be as easy as it was when we first met but I can’t. All I can say is that I will try my hardest to work at it, compromise, be patient, and communicate with him as much as possible.

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