Anniversary Fun

15. Celebrating love is celebrated

I love my David. I have loved him since very shortly after meeting him 4 years ago. And after he'd asked me out, and especially after we started out as a couple, I wasn't really shy about saying it and celebrating it! Sometimes people would comment "Ew!" or feign nausea when I said something I liked about him, which by the way is ridiculous!, and while I didn't stop doing it, I did wish people would be more positive. Now that we're married, and have been married for a year (a year!!) people seem to respect our relationship above and beyond what I would have expected, even those people who were not on board with us getting married in the first place. People celebrate us as we celebrate our love, and encourage us, and tell us that our relationship has impacted them. I suppose they have had a little bit of time to observe us and notice the … authenticity, perhaps? The good fit?

We celebrated our first anniversary a couple of weeks ago, in typical D&C fashion, and in the same way we celebrated our honeymoon - with a virus and soup and watching movies! We did also manage to get out of the house for a short walk, and catch the last 15 minutes of sunlight to take a photo of ourselves holding a wedding photo. We hope to do this every year and watch ourselves age and change and grow. I love being married because there's always room for a celebration - from turning in an assignment (bring out the wine and chocolate!) to starting another year together. I look forward to each celebration we are lucky enough to have together, big and small.

When we shared the photo online, people were extremely positive and commented encouragement and enjoyment - much more so than when we announced our engagement, or posted images from our wedding day. I wish we had been totally overwhelmed with {YES GO FOR IT} from  May 2013 (we did have a small minority of very strong supporters and I am so grateful for those voices of confidence and truth), but it is as I predicted - people are coming around very positively with time, as they see for themselves that this idea of marriage was a good one, regardless of our youthful numbers and others' fears of time and promises. Here's to many more celebrations of years gone by together. :)