Yesterday was our first anniversary.

It’s interesting…my life has changed in many ways since I’ve been married, but it’s been very similar in others. For instance:

• When I get home, I know that someone’s going to be asking me what I want to eat tonight, and I can’t get away with answering something like “a bowl of cereal” or “a pack of Ritz crackers”. That’s only when she’s been out of town.
• When considering the budget for the month, line items that I wouldn’t normally think about get added – things like “home decoration”.
• My table has place mats on it now.

And so on. But there are things that haven’t changed much. For example, I still like to play video games, and she doesn’t mind – in fact, she enjoys watching me play!

We’ve grown closer together, I think. We’ve still never fought, although we’ve had conversations where we’ve disagreed with one another. But I think that’s constructive, too. If both of you thought alike all the time, you’d be married to yourself, and in the immortal words of Seinfeld…”I can’t be with someone like me! I hate myself!”

Well, I don’t hate myself, but you get the point. (Or maybe you don’t, because I didn’t exactly make a point. But whatever.) The real point is, even though we’ve had times where we differed, we were still able to be closer to each other.

The changes in being married are very real, but I wouldn’t take my old life back now. I love being a married man, and I love the woman that I’m married to.

Happy 1st, Kelly. I love you.