Being Married

I suppose I'll address the ever so popular question of what's it like to be married. My parents warned me beforehand that they didn't truly feel like they were married until they'd had a few kids. So even though part of me wants to say that I kind of feel married, there is a part of me that knows I probably will feel more married when there are kids in the equation. lol.

For now, Michael is my Husband. Sometimes that seems a little weird, because to me he's just My Michael. The only difference now is that, he is no longer just my Michael. He's also my husband. The two roles are intertwined, but it's an interesting mix. I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but that's the way I think about it in my head. So that's that. ha.

Michael and I joke that he makes a good wife. But really, it's just that he's a wonderful husband. He does the dishes some nights when we come home, and he gets the mail and takes out the trash. Some days he cooks breakfast, and he even cleans up around the house. It's not that I don't cook or do dishes or clean too, 'cause I do. But it's just super sweet when he does it too. And he does it more than expected, which is of course, always appreciated and makes me love him more and more when I catch him doing those things.

Learning how to interact with each other and to be totally open about things is a process, as you might assume. But it's also wonderful as we take each new step toward being closer to each other. He does his best to support me with love and prayers and I try to do the same with him. I don't think I realized before we got married that I would love him more once we were married than I did before we were married. But I do. It often seems like I love him more and more with every day. Life doesn't have to be perfect and without stress for that to occur either. Because trust me, we both have stuff going on with school and work and everything. But it works out in the end. And that's what matters. Hopefully that wasn't too mushy ;)

I do hope to strive to become a better wife to Michael with every passing day