The Best Four
August 24th, 2006
I know it’s cliche and whatever. But the years with Heather have been the best of my life. I feel like I’ve been shaken and put back on track. It’s pretty rare that one gets a second chance in life and rarer still that one can do so without major concessions.
Say we could create what we thought would be our perfect partner. My partner creation would fall short of Heather in so many ways. I’ve been surprised, warmed and loved like never before in my life. I’m the luckiest man in the world. I don’t really care if that sounds trite or cheesy, because at the end of the day, when the house is quiet, I look across the pillows at her face and see the future. I felt that way five years ago and it has only grown since.
When she rests her head against my chest and I put my arms around her, I’m home.
Happy Fourth, Baby! o
August 24th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Happy anniversary! Huh. For some reason, I thought you two were married longer than 4 years. Anyway, congratulations! Our 5th is next month and that feels like a huge milestone.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Happy anniversary, Armstrongs! Very cool. Congrats!
August 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Happy Anniversary, you two. This is so much better than a card - telling the “world” of your love for your wife. Very romantic. It’s wonderful to see.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Lovely.
It’s always nice to see a couple that not just love each other but continue to like each other as the years pass.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Congrats, guys!
August 24th, 2006 at 11:26 am
that is the sweetest anniversary post i’ve ever read! you both seem like really awesome people. congratulations!
August 24th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Bravo! Jon, that was beautifully put, and as I have such a similar sense of my wife, it was truly lovely to read your words. They really hit home. That thing about the perfect partner creation falling short of your reality, I totally get that.
I think it is really excellent that you have given yourself permission to have such feelings. You deserve it.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Congratulations!
August 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Absolutely beautiful words Jon. So happy you found ‘your home’ in Heather.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:45 am
Congratulations! I hope that someday, I feel that for someone; in the meantime, it’s fantastic to know that someone does.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Happy 4th anniversary! You both are so cute!I love that bouquet!
We just had our 4th and really it feels like it was just yesterday.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:59 am
that just made me go a little misty.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
happy anniversary! who cares if its cliche or cheesy? love is like that, thats why there are so many cliches about it! hope you have many many more years of happiness together!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Oh wow, that was so incredibly sweet. I must be PMSing because that nearly made me cry, too. Happy Anniversary, Armstrongs!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Happy Anniversary!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
I’m getting married on Saturday and hope that after 4 years (and 5 and 20 and 50) my husband will be able to say the same things of our relationship. Congratulations!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Happy Anniversary to you both!
What you describe is just how it should feel with our life partner, I think.
And you described it so very well.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Beautiful.
Happy Anniversary!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Congratulations to two of my favourite writers.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Dude… that was so sweet that I think maybe you mistakenly took estrogren instead of Pepto-Bismal during your recent illness.
I kid, I kid. Big pansy that I am, I welled up when I read your post.
My anniversary is Saturday (#17, whoa), and I love that “I’m home” feeling you get when you are with the love of your life.
Congrats!
/goes back to being all weepy in the corner
August 24th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Happy Anniversary Guys!
August 24th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
A toast….may our worst times be like right now.
Wishing you many, many more happy years.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Happy Anniversary!
August 24th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Congratulations and I hope that you will share many more happy years. (And that when you look back, you’ll have got all the disasters out of the way in the last year.)
August 24th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Happy Anniversary, Armstrongs! Love your wedding pictures!