So on May 28th 2015 my parents celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary!
27 YEARS TOGETHER!
Can you imagine?!?
However I met a lady on the flight yesterday who has been married 57 years so that is pretty impressive too!
But anyways back to the parental units.
They were married on May 28th 1988.
If you haven't seen the wedding picture that is floating around the interwebs, its pretty adorable.
You know that picture I have of me standing in front of that medieval castle in Marksburg, and that massive grin of pure glee that is on my face?
Yeah I got that face from my mom.
She has pretty much the same grin on in her wedding picture.
A little less than four years later Owen was born.
And then 23 months later I was born.
And then 3.5 years after that Claire was born.
Currently 2 out of the three of us are in serious relationships.
I'm the odd ball out as per usual.
Were crossing our fingers that I actually meet someone good for me this year.
But I think why its so hard for me to find a person besides the reason that i'm a bit of a handful and I am high maintenance. Is that I have high standards when it comes to love.
I tend to fall too hard and fast for people.
But I don't think far enough ahead because usually it doesn't work out, on whether or not this person is good for me.
I'm comparing my idea of love to my parents.
Because that's what love looks like to me.
And I just haven't found something like that.
And I know i'm a different person than my parents, but they found something so real and so right.
It just clicked.
They met when my dad had just barely turned 21, in a bar.
She had just gotten out of a nasty break up and a couple of her guy friends invited her out.
They were meeting a friend for drinks.
It was my dad.
So she went out, they met.
It took my dad a month to get up the courage to ask my mom out on a single date. Just the two of them.
Three months after they were engaged!
A little over a year later they were married.
Can you imagine love like that?
Just finding someone and it just clicks?
All the pieces fall into place.
I mean it hasnt been easy.
We have been through a lot.
But they still sometimes act like teenagers.
They are still so in love with each other its almost sickening.
But they stay together and just love each other.
I hope I find something like that someday.
I can't be the oddball out forever? RIGHT?!
Sometime I should be able to catch a break.
I was talking to one of our family friends at Claire's graduation party.
She was in the same boat as I am currently.
Never really found someone right for the longest time.
But she persevered and even though it hurt a lot to date so many and then them not work out, she knew what she wanted and in the end she found what she wanted which was the best man.
I think that's whats going to happen to me.
I will have to fight and its going to hurt.
But in the end it will be worth it.
And I wont settle for anything less than my match and equal.
I will not settle for anything less than true happiness.
My parents didn't settle and now look at them, this is their happily ever after.
So to all of you that think i'm high strung and have high standards, its because I want love like my parents.
"I can be changed by what happens to be but I refuse to be reduced to by it."- Maya Angelou
I will adapt as the relationships come, but I will not become anything less, and I will not settle for less.
And I don't expect whomever decides to take me on as a bride to settle either.
Equals.
True love.
A happily ever after.
That's all I want.
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