I was sitting in the hospital’s waiting room, waiting for my annual checkup with my OB-GYN, when I heard a familiar voice. A man was talking quietly on his phone just a few seats away, and my heart nearly stopped when I looked at him. It was my husband, Jack.
What was he doing there?
The room suddenly felt smaller. My mind raced with questions I didn’t want to ask. Questions that could destroy everything I thought I knew about my marriage.
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Ten years.
That’s how long Jack and I have been married.
Ten beautiful, messy, wonderful years that gave us two amazing kids and a life I never thought I’d be lucky enough to have.
“Mommy, look what I drew!” my seven-year-old Emma had said that morning, holding up a crayon masterpiece of our family standing in front of our house. Even her stick figures looked happy.
“That’s beautiful, sweetheart,” I’d told her, taping it to the fridge next to dozens of others.
Watching my kids grow and discover the world fills me with this incredible pride. It’s like seeing life through brand new eyes.
And Jack?
He’s not just my husband. He’s my best friend and my partner in all the chaos that comes with raising two kids.
He helps with homework, reads bedtime stories with different voices for each character, and somehow always knows exactly what to say when I’m having a rough day.
“I don’t know how you do it all,” I’d told him just last week after he’d managed to fix Emma’s broken toy, help our nine-year-old Michael with his math homework, and still have dinner ready when I got home from work.
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