Getting through 50 years
has not been easy...
my marriage is far from perfect.
That word on the wedding shirt,
tenacity, seems to fit.
We hung together by threads
while living apart so much-
he out in the truckers world,
me home teaching school.
Tom did his job.
I did mine.
He was surley.
I was stubborn.
We both allowed space.
Tom was telling Mala
that he didn't want a
bunch of PEOPLE to a party.
She snapped, "You're the one
that hung around for 50 years,
SO SUFFER! I laughed.
Ours is a not so easy marriage,
apt to boil at the edges
but there are points of respect
mutual consideration
mutual love
where we meet and agree.
50 years and we are only
beginning to know what the
other is really all about.
Always there are new things
to consider...
Interesting entry about somehow or another finding new depths in an old relationship, which is about the only hope in enduring one. You will have to go to edit and delete those other accidental postings. Ha. Gerry
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