15- Happily Ever After

...NOT! Marriage takes work. Anyone who tells you otherwise either hasn't been married or is lying. I'm not saying that marriage isn't great, but that life isn't easy. You don't get married and then go back to life as if nothing had happened. You have to continue to nurture and strengthen your relationship if you want it to succeed.

I never thought it would be possible, but I love Marcos so much more now than I did ten years ago. Strangely, love seems to grow deeper with time. I can only hope that in ten more years I look back on my relationship and think how much deeper my love and commitment to Marcos has become. We've been through a lot together over the years - 4 cars, 2 apartments, 1 house, 4 college degrees, 10 full time jobs, at least a dozen part-time jobs, 2 children and multiple callings. We've been through some really difficult trials. There have been times when I could feel a force trying to pull us apart, times when I didn't know if our relationship could survive. But it did. Marriage isn't always roses and romance. A good marriage requires dedication and commitment. It requires communication and selflessness. It requires humility and sacrifice and love.

No one knows what trials they may face. We can only hope and pray and have faith. What I do know is that Marcos is my perfect teammate. Sometimes he has the ball and other times I do, but together we are much better than we are individually. There is no one that I would rather experience the ups and downs of life with than him. Here's to ten years of marriage and countless more to come, sweets. I love you...from here to Argentina and back - till I die and forever more!