A Family in Chaos

 16 YEARS AGO

TONIGHT

I WAS ADRIFT IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS…

IN THIS COVE

 …ON THIS SHIP

                                                                                            …IN THIS LUXURIOUS BED….

………CONTEMPLATING!!!!!!!

WEDDING DAY EVE!!!

THE BEGINNINGS OF OUR RELATIONSHIP OFFERED NO INDICATION OF THINGS TO COME!

WE WERE A CASUAL COUPLE TO SAY THE LEAST, WE WERE EACH OTHERS “FUN” DATE.

WHEN WE HAD A PARTY TO GO TO, OR SOMETHING, WE WERE THE ONE TO ASK….

WE WERE EACH OTHERS “AFTER PARTY”! SHE WAS MY CALL WHEN WE GOT BACK FROM….WHEREVER… AND I WAS HER’S!!

WE WERE THE COUPLE VOTED ‘MOST LIKELY TO FAIL”…..I LOVE SEEING PEOPLE I HAVEN’T SEEN IN ALONG TIME, THEY ARE ALWAYS SHOCKED TO FIND WE ARE STILL TOGETHER, IT MAKES ME LAUGH!!! 

BUT WE BECAME BEST FRIENDS, AND THE REST JUST FELL INTO PLACE.

I’D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO TELL YOU ABOUT OUR “SUPER ROMANTIC” PROPOSAL…

BUT THE REALITY IS, IT SOOOOO WASN’T ROMANTIC…IT WAS “HEY, WHY DON’T WE JUST GET MARRIED?” ……”OK!”

BUT 16 YEARS LATER, SHE STILL MAKES ME LAUGH, AND SHE STILL MAKES ME….WELL….YOU KNOW!!!

THANK YOU JEN, FOR ALL THE GOODTIMES, AND STICKING AROUND DURING THE SHITTY ONES!!

YOU KNOW, I AM A FIRM BELIEVER THAT YOU CAN FALL IN LOVE WITH ALOT OF PEOPLE, BUT THE KEY TO SUCCESS, IS TO MARRY THE PERSON WHO MAKES YOU A BETTER PERSON. THE PERSON THAT JERRY MAGUIRE SAYS “COMPLETES YOU”. 

THE GREAT POET, MEATLOAF SAID….”SO I SWORE ON THE BIBLE AND MY MOTHERS GRAVE, THAT I’D LOVE HER TILL THE END OF TIME! SOOOOOO NOW I’M PRAYING FOR THE END OF TIME, CAUSE IF I HAVE TO SPEND ANOTHER MINUTE WITH HER, I DON’T THINK THAT I COULD REALLY SURVIVE!”

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO MARRY POORLY!!