This month is my 35th wedding anniversary! June 15th was the same day my beloved grandparents got married too. People ask how we've managed to stay happily married and still like to sit together, hold hands and go on dates! I tell them I remember when we were first falling in love, we talked about how we could avoid falling out of love! We decided we would continue to look at ourselves as a couple first even after we became parents. We decided we would continue to have date nights. We made the decision that we would always hold hands, sit next to each other and work out the problems that would inevitably come.

We certainly haven't done it perfectly but I will forever be grateful my husband cared enough to decide those things with me when we were young and couldn't fathom how challenging it would become at times! But, by making the decision before the challenges came, it made it much, much easier to stick with our resolve. It's been an incredible journey and I look forward to 35 more years of Healthy Relationship building with the love of my life! =)