The hubs and I celebrated our 10yr anniversary a few months ago. Ten years! There has been a whole lot of life lived in those ten years of marriage. And honestly the decade just flew by, and we’re suddenly ten years older (and hopefully a little wiser).

Me and hubby, Bucky, about 11yrs ago…engagement pics. Look at those baby faces!

Anyone who has been married for a little while (or maybe even on day one, haha) has said something along the lines of “well, you’re stuck with me now”…usually jokingly…usually. And while its something meant to sound sarcastically threatening, there’s quite a bit of comfort in knowing that you’re stuck with eachother. Committed to eachother. A guarantee that you’ll always have your best friend/lover/partner in crime by your side.

Being stuck with your spouse means “for better, for worse” you will always have someone “to have and to hold from this day forward” – which again, provides a lot of comfort in that commitment you have made to eachother and to God. But here’s the thing, in order to have many more of the “for better” days than you do the “for worse” days, you have to continually CHOOSE eachother. Rather than just coasting through life with the comfort that you’re now stuck with eachother, a great relationship – a great marriage – requires that you truly choose one another over and over again.

Stuck with this face, babe!

You choose eachother through the all the little things that really end up being the big important things in life. When I find a handwritten note wishing me a good day, when he kisses my hand before he leaves for work each morning, when he ensures that he ends every phone call with an “I love you”…I know that Bucky is choosing me. And he knows that I would always choose him. I would choose him even on his cranky days. I would choose him even if Channing Tatum was on the menu. I would choose him even on the days where I don’t feel like he’s doing enough to choose me. Because I know through these ten years that he has constantly chosen me over and over again…and I know that next time I say “well baby, you’re stuck with me now” he will be the first to assure me that there’s no one he’d rather be stuck with.

Happy to choose eachother everyday