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I will be celebrating my twenty fifth anniversary next week. I am sometimes in disbelief that I have spent twenty five years of my life with my wonderful husband. There were many ups and downs along the path of wedded bliss. There were moments that I doubted my marriage and wondered if I should give up. As I pondered these thoughts, the good aspects of my marriage would creep into my memory, and I realized that my marriage is solid and happy.

When we were married seventeen years, we decided to separate for various reasons. One of the problems was money. Who doesn't have money issues in their marriage? We did separate, I moved to a larger city with our three children, and my husband stayed on the farm for six months. We knew we really didn't want to be apart, he came to visit us every weekend, and soon he was back in the family circle. For the last eight years, we have been blessed with full time work for both of us, and money is still a subject we have to deal with daily, but it is easier as there is more money to work with.

We recently became grandparents of three darling granddaughters. This new level of parenting really brings couples together. If you keep your marriage together until you reach grand parenthood, then you can be proud of your life. My husband and I know that to have a happy marriage, you need to take the good with the bad, and enjoy all the wonderful times you share together. Focus on each other, on your children, and your grandchildren.

As we spend our twenty fifth anniversary together, we don't really have any big expensive plans. We just want to enjoy the day being with each other, and reflect on the past and look forward to the next twenty five years. We really do want to be with each other "until death do us part". In five years, we want to renew our wedding vows so that we can really appreciate what those vows actually mean to a married couple.

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