Happy Anniversary My Love

I guess after 24 years of marriage it is time that I officially apologize to all of the other husbands in the world.  So what better day that the date of our 24th wedding anniversary to do so.  So this open letter to all other husband serves as both a gift to you and an apology to them.

Dear Other Husbands,

Today I am lucky enough to wake up next to the perfect woman.  I have done so nearly every day for the past 24 years.  When we awake we will likely turn and hug each other, hold each other and wish that we didn't have to get out f bed.  We'd much rather spend more time in each others arms.  We do so because we love each other more than any two people have ever loved one another.

I apologize that you don't have what we have.  I am sad that your marriage, no matter how strong, isn't our marriage.  I am hurt that you cannot experience what we experience every day.  We figured out how to be perfectly in love with each other.  I can't imagine how you have endured without what we have together.

I offer you some advice on how to "attempt" to have what we have together.

Try laughing together.  Not just telling jokes, but truly sharing the joy of laughter together.  In my 24 years with my wife I can't even count the times we simply couldn't control our laughter.  How many times, we started giggling over the littlest things and laughed so hard for so long we couldn't remember what started the laughing in the first place.

Try having fun together.  Spend as much time together as possible.  Whatever you enjoy doing - do it it with her.  Dance, sing, watch sports, play games - anything you enjoy.  Because if you you enjoy doing it on your own, it will only be better with your wife.  Play like she is your best friend.  And if you are lucky - she will be.

Hold each others hand.  Do it as much and as often as possible.  It brings you closer together.  It heals all wounds.  It comforts all pain.  It enhances all joy.  It is simply the best part of marriage.  A hand to hold whenever you need it.  A hand t hold whenever you want it.  A hand to hold....whenever.

Enjoy her beauty.  Remember that she above all others is the most beautiful person in your life.  She is the one who thinks of you when she fixes her hair, puts on her makeup or gets dressed.  She is likely the mother of your children and they were lucky enough to get their beauty from her.  She is someone that you have seen every day for however long and is still picture perfect.  Remember that she never has a bad day of being beautiful, because luckily you can always see just how beautiful she really is inside and out.

Finally, enjoy being in love.  There really is nothing better.  No better feeling exists.  It is the one thing that no matter what goes on around you in life that you can count on.  Love takes many forms, shows many faces and feels many different things.  But love is all we seek in life.  It is the only thing that truly can make us happy.  Enjoy what you have with you wife.  It will never leave you and you will never have to go looking for that love.

So I apologize that you may not have remember these things.  I do - every day.  That is why I am so happy and so lucky.  I am sorry that you don't have what I have.  But then again you don't have my wife.

Sincerely - ......

There you go my love.  My thoughts on you in an open letter to people who cannot possibly have what we have after 24 years of marriage.

I am so lucky to have you in my life.  After 24 years I know that it only gets better from here.  We will find new things to laugh about, new ways to have fun, hold hands even more, you will get more beautiful every day and we will enjoy being love even more than we do today.

Happy 24th anniversary.  This has been the best 24 years of my life.  I would not give up a single day of the past 2 and half decades.  I can't wait for the next 24 years.

You're the world to me.  I love you more than anything in the world.