@sligo Yes, it is very similar. Isn’t it funny that when you know you’ve got the “right one”...you just...well...know it! Ha
My daughters never asked much about us growing up in the 60’s but my Grandchildren, they want to hear all about it.
My my daughter sent us a picture of “Meet Courtney 1986...she’s changing the game”, she has acid washed jeans and jelly bracelets”...they all 3 posted “we feel so old”. Ha.
I have a theory why we can remember so much of the past. It’s because most of our big memories are already made. It gives us comfort to remember them.
It’s so ironic how he stood up and died because he was such a dare devil. Oh! The stories I can tell you of his antics.
He worked out every day. We were total opposites. When you mentioned how you were an extrovert and he wasn’t that’s exactly like the two of us.
We’d go to parties and I’d go one way and he’d settle in with one or two people. I’d go everywhere and introduce myself. Sometimes I’d bring them to meet my honey. I just love people. My motto is “Everyone has a story to tell”.
Here’s what I used to say when people would say, “You could still get married again”...I used to say, “I was married to Filet Mignon. Why would I settle for hamburger”.
Sounds like you could say that too.
One thing I do is when I miss him so much and I feel like he’s nearby, I write him letters about things that happened in our lives. I put them in an envelope and seal them up.
They are for our daughters and grandchildren to read and to comfort them when they miss us after I die.
You might keep a little notebook handy and as you think of an incident or spoken words between the two of you, jot them down for your daughter and grandchildren. As they are read, the reader would share in some of the closeness you and your husband had. You could also put them on a computer.
Take care and thanks for sharing your story and thank you for your service to our country. I have friends who’s husbands served in the military. Their wives were at home caring for the house, bills and children.
Wives are hero’s who aren’t mentioned often enough. All mothers are heroes, but especially wives of military people.
It can stress out families where the wide and children are home leading their lives. Then Daddy and husband comes back. It’s more rules have to change again and another way of doing things. Yes, all of you are serving too.
Be safe and plant a kiss on the Filet Mignon of yours.😘
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