After almost 34 years of marriage (tomorrow will turn that calendar!), we find we can finish each other’s sentences. We can sense a direction to travel together. We can end up in the same store aisle on the hunch that this is where we will find what we need.
Most of all, I find that I listen very carefully. If the volume of the listening ear is low for acquaintances, the volume is screeching when my wife speaks. Loud enough to either warn me or encourage me. Loud enough to push me to action or quiet my impatience.
This does not come in a short acquaintance. This comes in trusted years of circumstance. Where once I may have wondered the motive for a question or a directive, now I assume that love is the motivator.
Not that some pretty heated discussions do not ensue. As a matter of fact, we are more animated now than when we were younger. We do not fear being broken by the other because we know each of us is committed to the other – for better and for worse!
So, my thanks to my closest advisor. You are who you are, and I thank you!
Good to hear and comforting to know my daughter has a good husband !