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Although the actual date isn't until tomorrow, T and I celebrated our first anniversary today. We spent the afternoon at his friend DW's birthday party (which I didn't mind, especially given that DW basically gave up his birthday to our wedding last year). After a stop by a local park to walk off the heavy lunch, we dropped by a favorite used bookstore, then had a light dinner at the Chinese restaurant where we had our first date. A pleasant day all around, full of companionship and conversation.
So a year of marriage has gone by, which I believe makes us officially no longer newlyweds. It's funny, though, because I don't know that I ever felt like a newlywed. T and I have lived together for going on six years, after all, and have been involved for almost seven. Marriage really didn't change anything all that much from a practical standpoint, or even from an emotional one. In some ways, the crucial moment for us was deciding to get married in the first place -- everything that followed was just a formality. Then again, going through the formality was important to me, so maybe marking the date is meaningful after all.
I see that the clock has turned past midnight. Happy anniversary, T. May it mark the first of many good years together.
So a year of marriage has gone by, which I believe makes us officially no longer newlyweds. It's funny, though, because I don't know that I ever felt like a newlywed. T and I have lived together for going on six years, after all, and have been involved for almost seven. Marriage really didn't change anything all that much from a practical standpoint, or even from an emotional one. In some ways, the crucial moment for us was deciding to get married in the first place -- everything that followed was just a formality. Then again, going through the formality was important to me, so maybe marking the date is meaningful after all.
I see that the clock has turned past midnight. Happy anniversary, T. May it mark the first of many good years together.
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I know what you mean about marriage not seeming to make things different; Alex and I actually lived together before we got married and then lived mostly in two different places for a year and a half starting right after we got married.
I guess for a lot of us, getting married doesn't change the day-to-day because we're not living apart under someone else's roof at our parents' place or in the maiden house until it's time go get hitched. But it does change what's beyond the day-to-day, and that's definitely worth celebrating.
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Thanks! And I agree, totally. I'd say the one thing that did change was the way we approach long-term planning -- it's not like we didn't include each other in our plans before, but it wasn't necessarily an automatic part of the equation. Now it is, although again I think we made that adjustment after the engagement. (We had a really long engagement.)