I was at Target last night picking up a card to give to Jake for our anniversary and nothing seemed appropriate. I could have gone funny and picked the one that talked about him remote-hogging and me cover-stealing; I could have gone serious with the ‘yin to my yang’ mushiness; I could have picked a million different words to tell him on this day, but none of them fit. So I went simple and picked one with two octopi holding hands with the inside saying I still love to hold his hand. He thought it was cute, but it did make us wonder if there will ever be a card that fits us.<\/p>\n
Where is the card that says ‘Thanks for dragging me out of bed when all I wanted to do for the last year was disappear into the mattress’? Or the card that says ‘I can’t believe I just yelled at you about butter, but please know I’m not mad at you and I’m not mad at the butter, I just don’t know how to express myself’? Maybe a card that says ‘I am in a mental fog, but you make a great fog horn’?<\/p>\n
The truth is there isn’t a card for us and I hope there is never a market for cards for people like us. Five years ago when we said our vows, I think we were both hoping to be just another ordinary couple that got to exchange ordinary cards on ordinary anniversaries; we never thought we’d be here. Some days we still feel numb about where we are in our lives. We still struggle with how we got here and how we’ll make it to tomorrow. I guess the best I can tell him is that I don’t know how we’ll make it, but I still love holding hands with him and I know that makes the journey a lot easier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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