10th Year Anniversary
Today is our 10th year anniversary. I met Someone ten years ago when we were both staying at the same B&B in Key West. I was there for my annual holiday; he was there for the first time. We met at social hour. One could say it was a Broadway musical that made the ‘click’. I voiced a fondness for “The Secret Garden”. He recently was in a production of it.(Since some Spo-fans are smart alecks - he was the Gardener, not Mary Lennox).
I could write all sorts of things about our relationship, but what comes to mind as I write this is the amazement. Has it been 10 years? Didn’t we just meet? More incredible is he bothers to hang in with me. My ADD wiring wasn’t a really a ‘disorder’ until I started to live with another. Bad traits of blurting, the inattention, the difficulty to sit still/finish things around the house all drive him bats. A major mistake is to ask a question only to realize ‘he had said that five minutes ago’. It hurts his feelings so. So there are times I wonder why he bothers to hang around someone like me, or at least without Ritalin.
We aren’t doing much for the day – we will eat out. In two days we go to Costa Rica and we shelled out a lot of $$$ to buy the year’s airplane tickets now. So our ‘gifts’ to each other is the commitment towards the future, expressed in these plans.
I don’t talk about the ups and downs of my relationship on my blog. He likes his privacy – and my family reads this blog. But I am grateful that he is with me. Life without him would feel empty.
I hope that there are 10 years more and then some.
posted by Ur-spo at 5:52 AM
35 Comments:
"...More incredible is he bothers to hang in with me..."
In the "world" in which I spend my "exile", it is called "love". I think it is the same in the "real" world, in your world. :)
A most sincere wish for a most happy anniversary! -- and for many, many more!
Congratulations! Have a great day !!
Saith Spo: he was the Gardener, not Mary Lennox
I always had Someone down more as Mary Haines.
Many happy returns to both of you, and I'm really looking forward to seeing you both the day after tomorrow.
I better not be Crystal Allen then!
No, Countess, you're not Crystal.
(kisses)
Congratulations Spo. Enjoy C.R. with your honey. Celebrate and look foward to many more years together. Hug on him, kiss him, and tell him how you really feel.
Happy Happy Anniversary to you both! What a beautiful post. He is so lucky :)
(I come from Purple Twinkie)
Congratulations to you and Someone, and here's to many more happy years to follow. Enjoy your trip to Costa Rica!!
"Oh, l'amour, l'amour, how it can let you down. Hmm. How it can pick you up again."
I'm happy to see that l'amour has been picking you up for ten years. Congratuations. I feel all tingly and happy for you.
And you can call me Sylvia Fowler.
I agree that it's difficult to talk about one's relationship as all of them have ups and downs. Beyond that, I think part of my "disorder" being rooted in anxiety (OCD--but I'm thinking it's most likely more GAD) gives rise to many ADD tendencies (shaking legs, loving caffeine, finishing sentences, blurthing things out, not finishing things, which all annoy my partner quite frequently). Hope your trip to Costa Rica is truly a wonderful time.
"I hope that there are 10 years more and then some."
I'm on the side of "...and then some". Congratulations to you both!
Happy Anniversary you two!!! :)
That's a "post" I felt in my heart, i.e., you've expressed your heartfelt feelings very well. Ten years for a gay couple is like 40 for hets (hah!)........... And REALLY, just the "living" everyday together IS a challenge so this proves you're both still involved in one of life's great mysteries: THE POWER OF LOVE. Congratulations even IF you're any of the characters from that fabulous movie. Enjoy your second honeymoon in Costa Rica.
Big hugs and congratualtions on ten years together. You guys lok great together but more to the point you're obviously making life happy with and for each other.
Enjoy Costa Rica and may ther be many, many more happy anniversaries.
That's wonderful you still feel like you do. You don't find that everywhere ya know? I told my MIL yesterday that they have been short years and she got it. She says,"I've been married 48 loonnnggg years." But they are still in love. I can't wait for your trip I want to see lots of pictures of the beautiful landscape!
That was beautiful Spo, you almost made me well up,and I don't cry at movies or sad stories. What you said was so much from your heart.....
BTW. You know Ritalin has the opposite effect on adults. That would not be wise. haha
PS What's all this negative talk about you? I'd say Someone knew a good thing when he found you. :)
Maggie, I've tried Ritalin; it works well but I don't eat for weeks.
Terry - thank you! As a fellow Michigander from Fremont I will reciprocate too (I think I found you through Purple TWinkie).
Ooh, could I have some Ritalin please? I could really stand to not eat for a few weeks.
The strength of your feeling comes through all the clearer for the lack of hyperbole.
Please tell "Someone" thanks for me, too. I suspect he's a large part of who and what you are.
Happy Anniversary.
Happy Anniversary!!
How awesome for you two to be in love!!! And what committment to one another.
And it's so great that you still feel like you just met. It shows that it's still new.
Well, at least I now know - for a fact that SOMEONE is a man LOL. I was getting skeptical, just kidding. Seriously - enjoy your anniversary; and here's to many more.
Congratulations! I wish you many, many more. Great pic, too.
Many heartfelt congratulations! You hit it on the head: "Has it been 10 years? Didn't we just meet?" So much love in such a short pair of questions.
The double rainbow in your picture is a sure sign of a happy future together.
The photo was when we went to the grand canyon - what timing! it was raining but we got this double rainbow instead of a view.
What a great post. It warms my heart to see that the time seems to have passed so quickly. I think that's the sign of a good relationship. Congratulations to both of you.
Happy Anniversary. I'm sure you're not nearly as difficult to live with as you think you are. Besides, what's not to love...
CONGRATULATIONS!! Many happy returns. The first ten went by fast, it gets faster with each year so hang on and enjoy the ride.
Enjoy Costa Rica.
congratulations! thats a sweet picture of the two of you, very happy looking couple.
Happy, happy anniversary to two amazing men... and here is wishing you 10x10 more... enjoy your trip and the rest of your life together...
thank you everyone.
Oh this does my heart good. Happy many returns.
Spo....
Happy 10 to you and SOMEONE! WOW! None of us are perfect and I am sure SOMEONE knows that. Sometimes it is the smaller, less obvious things that make a relationship endearing. Hugs. And have a great time in Costa Rica. I am jealous. Will we be hearing you playing the role of Tarzan as you 'zip' ride through the rainforest tree tops?!
Happy Anniversary :)
Happy anniversary guys!?
Al the best for the trip and the coming years.
You talk about your faults, I'm sure his no basket of bunnies himself. The ups and downs make a relationship. People with perfect lives usually have more problems than we know. And sometimes than they know.
Have a safe trip.
Happy Anniversary. I am so happy you too found one another.
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