Year 7 - Dusk till dawn

They say that the 7th year of marriage is a tough one. I always thought it was just bullshit. It will not happen to us. We are something else. We have something special. But then life came in. And kids. And jobs. And money issues. And health issues. And friends issues. And I guess we forgot that we are something else. And that we have something special.
We kind of forgot to talk. I would nag. He would stay silent. We would fight. And resent each other everything. Instead of trying to get through whatever we had to get through we would blame each other for said thing. The more apart we became, the more void there was between us, the more filed it became with our kid's fears and cries. They sensed that something was wrong. Or, more accuratly, that everything was wrong.

I am not much of a building expert. Don't know much about construction. But I know one thing, if you build your house on a solid foundation it can maybe be damaged in an earthquake or burned in a fire or hit by a hurricane but the foundation is still there and it allows you to rebuild. Even better. Even stronger.

We went through our fair share of shit this year. Kids issues. Job issues. And money issues. And health issues. And friends issues. And we remembered that we are something else. And that we have something special. Plus we made three of the most amazing and awesome humans I have ever met. So we worked it out. We are working it out. And we will keep working it out. That's what marriage is about, right? Work in progress. YOu should never expect to be done with working on it but you can, and should, have fun and enjoy the process. So fuck you year 7, you supposedly unlucky bastard.

So it is the beautiful crisp, fresh and bright morning after our year 7 storm. Year 7 hurricane. Yea, there may still be damage to our house we need to fix but we are in it to win it. Today, as I was working my regular job, writing about some sage, I listened to some music and this song came on and it sounded just like living through year 7. It rang so true. So, as you might have guessed, it's on constant repeat since. I actually planned on posting something else, about carriers, but all these feelings came up bubbling so...

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