Rant #2,157: Years May Come, Years May Go

Today, June 6, 2018, my wife and I celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

Years may come, years may go is right ... I cannot believe where the time has gone.

I remember the day so well, it really was like yesterday.

It was a sunny day, but it was windy to what seemed like near hurricane proportions.

We had an outdoor ceremony, and everything was blowing about, but we made it through the whirlwind to the huppah, I stepped on the ceremonial glass, and we were husband and wife.

If the ceremony was windblown, the reception was a tornado of a great time.

And now, 25 years later, we are still together as husband and wife, and we have a child to reinforce that union. Pair our son with my daughter from my first marriage, and I guess you can say that we have the modern version of a nuclear family.

Six years ago, in Rant #751, I expressed my feelings about the day and the woman I married as well as possible, so let's revisit that Rant, in edited form:

"Since probably none of you know about this, today is a very special day in my life.

Today is my wedding anniversary, so I am going to wish myself, and my wife, a happy anniversary.

My, the years have gone very quickly indeed.

With one bad marriage under my belt, I was ready to take the plunge again, searching for the happiness that I did not have in my first union.

But I wouldn't do it with just anybody. The girl had to be bright and beautiful from head to toe.

And yes, I was damn lucky. I found that girl, and knew that this was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

Things happen during your life, and once in a while, you get lucky.

And I got lucky with this woman.

No, not the way you think.

I was working as a real estate writer, my first marriage was done, and I thought it was time to start to date again.

I hooked up with a dating service (pre-Internet), and they fixed me up with some decent and nice girls who simply weren't my type.

Finally, they got it right with this one. No, I don't think I knew it from the onset, or maybe I did, but this girl was the one I had been searching for. She met all the criteria I had, and we proceeded to fall in love.

One thing led to another, and here it is, all these years later, and things are as good as they have always been with us.

We have a son, which makes us something of a "nuclear" family with my daughter from my first marriage. It is kind of my daughter's doing that I actually started to date again, because when she was little, about four years old, I was playing with her one day in her room on one of my visitation days. We were having fun, and then it dawned on me, as I was playing with her, that it was time for me to date again. Yes, it happened just like that.

And I went out and did just that, and thank God I met the right girl almost from the get go.

Every day, I feel that I am the luckiest man in the world to have found this woman.

So happy anniversary to me, and to her.

I love my wife, and I always will.

And like Ralph Kramden used to say to Alice on "The Honeymooners," "Baby, you're the greatest."

And yes, she really is."

My wife remains the greatest woman in the world, and here's to the day, and many. many more.

I love you!