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Today, my wife and I are celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary. When we got married, I was only 19 and Erika was 20. It was staggering how many people including Christians discouraged our young marriage.
We didn’t have enough life experience, or money. “You’re not even old enough to know who you are.” “Don’t you want to experience life before you are locked down?”
Few people understood the desire of a young man and woman to get married quickly rather than feel eachother out over the course of 4 or 5 years. In this way, secular virtue even amongst Christian friends and acquaintances had won out over the importance of married family life.
My desire to get married was deeply rooted by the love of my own family growing up. My parents’ life was not the pursuit an individualistic fulfillment but was totally shared with their children. I wanted that same shared and dependent life.
These 6 years later, Erika and I have just that, a fulfilled life shared with our two children and surrounded by family including my parents, my sister, and soon my grandmother.
With my wife and children, I get to share and remember all of the experiences I was told would be better on my own. I can assure you life could not be better than this because even when things are down, there are people outside of myself to strive for.
So happy anniversary to the beautiful @lifefervescence
