Translated…
The intoxicating advertisement flashed on the television, “Diamonds last forever, one can be passed down into eternity.” My husband who was sitting beside me let out a careless sigh, “It’s just another “rock”, big deal!” at that very moment, I’d thought, I probably shouldn’t keep my hopes up for my silver wedding anniversary present then.
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My husband is a practical sort of person, I’d recalled how one year on Valentine’s Day, he’d rushed into the kitchen after he came home, back then, I was busying, cooking supper, seeing how excited he’d acted, I thought he’d gotten that promotion. With that bright smile on his face, he’d brought out a yellow rose from behind him, placed it into my hand, told me happily, “Honey, happy Valentine’s Day!”, back then, I was, totally speechless, didn’t know how to react.
As we sat down to eat, I was still wondering why my husband had handed me that yellow rose, and, as I lifted my head up, I was shocked to discover, that that flower was already, in a vase, on the shrine. Whoa! The man of the house, well, he may be, a bit, too “practical”, I do believe!
This joke became something I’d used, to make fun of him for a very long time. He’d told me, that he’d originally planned to surprise me with something romantic on Valentine’s Day, but, he’d not known, that he’d, messed that up. As for me, I’m still, more than, gratified, toward that careless mistake from way back when, and, many years later, today, as I thought about his “sweetened burdens”, I’d still, smiled upon it.
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The most important thing in getting along in a marriage is communication, from being match-made, to dating, to marrying to having children, we’d rarely gotten into arguments; every now and then, we’d have our differences of opinions, but, in order to keep the peace of our house, we’d, compromised, each taken a step back, to reach an agreement. A good marriage needs work from both husband AND wife, so long as you’re willing to take the time and energy, to read into one another’s hearts, holding hands, as you two danced the tango together, as one of you move forward, the other, back, that way, that song that stated, “Actually, you don’t really know me at all”, will become, the last of its kind I’m sure!
And so, this, is what a good marriage looks like, the husband and wife knew one another well, they know each other’s good qualities and flaws too, and, managed to, live with each other’s ups and downs, and that, is how to make a marriage work, a lot of communication, a lot of adjustment, and, a whole lot of understanding, AND love too!
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