As I listened to Andy Stanley introduce a new series yesterday, I was reminded of this post that I wrote nearly five years ago. You can view Andy's new series by clicking here: "What Happy Couples Know". I recommend it for anyone who is married, engaged, or hopes to be married.

This summer, Cheri and I will celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary.  Like many husbands, I don’t remember many of the details from the wedding.  I remember that Cheri was a beautiful bride and all that mattered to me was that we were getting married.  Still, it’s hard to believe that nearly twenty-nine years have passed since our wedding day.

We’ve been through a lot together.  We were married right out of college and for the first six months we barely made enough money to get by.  Our first residence was a 2 bedroom, 2 bath concrete block stucco house in south Florida.  We each brought our bedroom furniture from our parents’ homes and we had a small kitchen table.  Our living room was furnished with two folding lawn chairs, a bookcase and a 13” black and white TV.  I can remember when we had to carefully consider spending $10 to buy a charcoal grill.  We felt like real adults after that purchase!

Together we’ve bought and sold houses and cars, relocated several times, and made significant career decisions.  We’ve reared two sons into their adulthood and are very proud of both of them.  We’ve experienced financial struggles as well as abundance.  We’ve had our disagreements at times but we managed to resolve them together.