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by Leslie Greenetz My husband and I just celebrated 40 years together! From this vantage point, it seems like it flew by in a wink. It’s not until I chat with younger people about their marriages that I remember the adjustments and lessons we had to go through to get to where we are now. A non-negotiable commitment is the first thing you need to last the decades. Yes, we pledge our vows in marital bliss on our wedding day- till death do us part, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer... and it feels like the wind is in our sails and it can’t get any better than this! The wedding is the pinnacle of months of preparation, making plans together, dreaming of the future together,
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sacrificing and anticipating together. Then reality sets in. All the dreams of what I thought married life would be like were so different than what I was experiencing. Those feelings of working together planning our little nest, imagining never being apart again were replaced with him going to work every day! Gone. All. Day. Then coming home tired and wanting space and not ready for my onslaught of conversation and my urgent need to connect. Rapture was replaced by rejection. I had to swallow my disappointment and remember who I used to be before the flurry of wedding planning, honeymoon fun and nest
Dave & Leslie Greenetz Married 40 years. Assemb. James Gallagher Legislative Update
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