Jeff and I celebrate 25 years!

April 4th, 1997.

I was freshly 19 years old and walked down a church aisle to say forever to the man I'd felt connected to since I was 10 years old.

We were 6 years apart; and our relationship started out as friends on a church campground in Tioga, Louisiana.

We were both Pastor's Kids, spent the majority of our early lives in church, and thus knew each other from those circles.

My heart would skip a beat when I would pass him inside an office, on the softball field, or at church; and society presented the notion, at the time, that it was incredibly inappropriate for a woman to initiate with a man, but...My little rebel heart, once I became a mid-teenager, would flirt in ways that most would not catch. But he caught it.

Finally in January 1996, he mustered up the courage to ask me if I was sensing what he had always been sensing between us. I crashed that beautiful advance with the, "I think you need to talk to my dad." comment. Can you imagine?

Fast forward to August, we were engaged in San Francisco with our families by our side, and were married a LONG 8 months later.

Marriage did not bode well for us out of the gate. We were not expecting the road that was before us.

The first 10 years of our marriage were hell on earth. I attribute our deep religious coding concerning divorce being the sole reason we stayed together during that time.

Our marriage story includes betrayal, infidelity, deep sorrow, regret, shaming, some form of love, and commitment.
Pure grit of commitment. 

I will continue to share the details of our early love and marriage journey, our experience and wisdom captured throughout the years, and how we are mastering masculine and feminine energetics with you in the upcoming blogs.

But for today's blog, I'd love to share that we are madly in love with each other, the companionship and knowing we have is monumental, and our souls see each other well beyond earthly realms.

We celebrated in The Rockies, he bought me a Kemo Sabe custom-designed hat as an anniversary gift, and we made magical, creative, spiritual love that evening. We later took the celebration to Vegas, and had the time of our lives.

I am SO in for another 25.
There is something incredibly rich about growing old with someone.

I love you, Jeffrey David.