I looked at my dirty toilet, Wednesday morning, and thought to myself,
“I’d really rather stay home and clean my house than go away with hubby for a couple of nights.”
What woman thinks these thoughts?
The school year had come to an end, and hubby had planned a little mini get away for just us two, and I wanted to stay home and clean toilets? I do need a vacation!
Now that we are home from our two night get-away, I truly do not know that woman who stared longingly into her dirty toilet bowl.
I am so thankful for those days with that man.
We talked, we walked in silence, we sat at the beach, we relaxed in the hot springs pool, we laughed, we dreamed, we discussed, we enjoyed good food, and were totally spoiled at a couples massage.
Twenty-eight years ago, yesterday, this man asked me to marry him (after I told him we were done … that is another story, for another day).
We didn’t take much time to get to know each other before walking an aisle, repeating vows and sealing it with a kiss.
Our marriage has been:
good … and bad,
romantic … and boring,
united … and divided,
healthy … and so very unhealthy,
committed … and should have been committed … to a psychiatric facility.
The effects of the demands of jobs, children, home maintenance, financial stresses, mutual disappointments, disagreements and drudgery have made for a number of … right sided (see the list on the right, above) marital experiences over the years.
But in moments like we just had, away just us two, are more cleansing and rewarding than the mundane of cleaning a house.
This time remind us that it was love, attraction, and joy in each other that started this wild and crazy life journey together.
The youngest of our three just graduated high school, this is a transition time for us. How lovely to start this new phase, together, away … with not a care in the world … not even dirty toilets.
“My beloved said to me,
“Get up, my true love, my beautiful one,
and come with me.”
Song of Solomon 2:10
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