As Ted and I meet with engaged couples, I find myself sharing things I wish our mentors had told us.
Eighteen years ago,
my fiancé Ted and I sat side-by-side on a blue floral couch in a living room in
Virginia. Across from us, in a set of club chairs, sat a married couple from
our church. As we chatted with them for the first time, both nervousness and
excitement cartwheeled in my stomach.
They’d been married at least a decade. They knew firsthand about marriage’s better and worse, richer and poorer, sickness and health. As Ted and I counted down the four months until our wedding, they were there to help prepare us for the days, months and years to come after we promised, “I do.”
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