Hey girls,
This is going to be a quickie post, I’m at my parents house writing essays for helping my brother with his college application process. He procrastinated big time and is feeling the crunch. I spent the weekend here, intending on relaxing, but was busy and productive instead. I still got my workouts in though. My dad actually joined me in doing two Insanity DVDs on Saturday. Can I just tell you that he worked out in the outfit he was heading out of the house in: Jeans, Sweater, Construction Boots, Gun (tucked into his waistband). He’s nuts!
Speaking of nuts, I can’t believe that today is my Mom and Dad‘s 30th wedding anniversary. I love that they’re together and generally happy, during this time of divorces left and right, and millisecond-long marriages. They’ve modeled a quality relationship for me all my life, and I didn’t realize or value it until my mid twenties. From their successful 30 year long marriage I’ve learned to:
- respect each other above all else
- fight respectfully, quietly, and in private
- laugh together often
- laugh at each other too, in the best of ways
- be best friends
- stand together against whatever
- give space and allow crowding
- compromise, compromise, compromise
- learn how the other communicates and speak that language
- let your spouse be crazy in their own way
- accept them and love them unconditionally
Thanks for showing us how it’s done Mom & Dad!
Happy Anniversary!!
I hope John and I have a long and happy marriage and can model what a great relationship looks like to our children.
I gotta get back to work on these college apps and research with my bro. Talk to you tomorrow girls!
Are your parents still married? Divorced? Re-married? What have you learned from your parents about marriage?
Aww… Happy Anniversary to your parents! That’s an amazing feat indeed!
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Congrats to your parents! I love looking at old school pics like yours. Love your mom’s lush hair btw =) My parents will celebrate 35 year together this July. They were a great role model of a marriage for me too. I love them!
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Congrats to your ‘rents!! My parents are still married and will celebrate 28 Years this September. Although my parents aren’t the most lovey dovey people in the world, I learned a lot about what I want in a marriage from them (personally, I’m a mush, so I need the lovey dove!).
Congratulations to your parents 30th wedding anniversary. Having role models that have been married Woodmyers is such a blessing, because you get to learn how a real relationship works.
There will always be ups and downs and sometimes sideways too, but at the end if they can make it this far you know they truly love each other. My mom and dad was my inspiration to want to get married as well. If he had not passed away in 2007, this year would have also been their 30th anniversary as well.
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Happy Anniversary!!! My parents were not married so watching my mother struggle, I learned how important it is to have a partner. All I knew about marriage up until we took pre-marital counseling, I learned from television. Great examples, huh? LOL. Thankfully, my husbands parents’ have been together for 30+ years so he’s learned a lot and that’s helped us to be so happy thus far.