{"id":9068,"date":"2015-04-22T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9068"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:52:26","slug":"8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9068","title":{"rendered":"8 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is our 8-year anniversary, though that seems like the understatement of a lifetime; we’ve been together for almost 16 years and in just a couple more years, that means we will have been together for half our lives. We dove head-first and intensely into a relationship as raucous, silly, emotionally-charged teenagers, and the fact that our relationship survived past the volatile stage of college craziness is amazing. But it did. We pushed through, always magnetically drawn closer together every summer break when we found ourselves with more one-on-one time in-between summer jobs and long distance. We could not stay apart, even through graduate school when we were separated by hundreds of miles, whispering into our phones late every night, letting the silences become comfortable and the heartsickness be felt.<\/p>\n

We have become, over the years, closer than I knew was possible between two separate people. It’s not that we finish each other’s sentences, it’s that we say the same things at the same time so often I fear our minds have melded into one \u2014 and they haven’t, of course. It’s that everything has been discussed, everything has been forgiven, everything has become an inside joke and everything can be conveyed through a subtle look. We are on the same wavelength, riding along together. He has been my partner for so long that I cannot imagine my life anymore without him, cannot remember very well my life before him; it’s as if he was always there with me.<\/p>\n

And yes, we argue. We annoy each other and get into disagreements and it’s always, always okay. We can see the big picture, the history and the future and everything we are to each other. He is my best friend, the gentle and funny and passionate father of my children, he is an admirable public speaker with poise and grace and humility. He is thoughtful and kind and HANDSOME and awesome. I am so proud of him, so proud to be with him, to be by his side through thick and thin. I am so very much in love with this man. Happy Anniversary, Andrew!\u00a0\"DSC_0037\"<\/a>\"DSC_0034\"<\/a>Here’s to eternity!<\/p>\n

P.s. 12 Relationship Tips<\/a> from a Wedding Reporter\u2026 I thought this was really insightful!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is our 8-year anniversary, though that seems like the understatement of a lifetime; we’ve been together for almost 16 years and in just a couple more years, that means we will have been together for half our lives. We dove head-first and intensely into a relationship as raucous, silly, emotionally-charged teenagers, and the fact … Continue reading “8 Years”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[107,165,66],"class_list":["post-9068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-andrew","tag-anniversary","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9079,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9068\/revisions\/9079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}