To My Wife On Our Twenty First Wedding Anniversary
Yeah I'm a suck up, so sue me
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on your longevity!!! Rare feat these days. My wife and I have been through a lot together, mostly due to my health problems and we have stayed together. Other couples that we know have had it easier from our point of view, yet their relationships are gone. Maybe tough times do make people stronger or that both of us are such losers that no one else will have us. 
Either way I'm glad we are where we are today. Thank you for the reply.
We've had our health issues as well. My wife battled cancer for a year back in 2001. But she came through it, and there was indeed light at the end of the tunnel. Then it was my turn. In 2004, I discovered by pure luck (and a little awareness) that I might have a heart problem. I talked my way into a same-day visit with a cardiologist, no easy feat in Germany (usually they tell you to wait 2 months for an appointment). He said I needed to do a stress-echo test, and when I did, he freaked, and sent me up to a well-known cardiac clinic THAT MINUTE. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 euros. I had two arteries 99% blocked, and the surgeon said I was a massive coronary waiting to happen any second. He got me in the OR right away, put in two stents, called my wife in and told her all the good stuff I was never allowed to eat again, and prescribed me medicine I have to take for the rest of my life. But I do take it, and I do (mostly! LOL) stay away from eating the yummy stuff, and here we both are 13 years after her ordeal and 10 years after my scare.
Not that I'm saying you need a good health crisis or two to stick together, but it looks like you and I had them, and we DID stick together. And none of us are losers, I promise you. At 62, My wife still looks like a model (if she loses that picture Dorian Gray had done for her, she's in trouble), and so no one notices me in the first place 
and I thought I had it rough. So glad you both weathered the storms and still love each other a great deal. Being witty and having a great sense of humor helps a great deal I'm sure. PS Don't tell her I said this, but a tasty bite or two every now then may not be so bad, just don't let the wife know 
She's my age, so she must be cool. 
My husband and I just celebrated our 24th, a couple months ago.
in a nerdy sort of way. 
Good to see others with strong long lasting relationships. We all should be proud. Thanks for the reply.
we did it standing on our heads..............not
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my wife will be driving my son to swimming and picking up my daughter from play rehearsal this evening. I told her this morning we will leave the kids at home and go back to Jamaica as we did for our honeymoon when we hit 25 years. She agreed whole heartily. We can dream can't we??? A lotto win is just around the corner I don't care what John Oliver says.
right now but maybe we can sneak away for a few hours. I'll tell her you told me we have to get out of the house. I do remember the very first time I saw her weeks before we met. I was thinking to myself why can't I have a girl like that. I was shy so I did not approach her that night. So a few weeks later I talked a friend into getting out of our neighborhood and go to a garage party that I learned about during the week. He agreed and we were at the party and my wife kept on stepping on my feet! I was in my glory. I walked her home that night, waited a week to call her and thirty one years later we are still together!!!! 