I swear we were talking about Michael Jackson, or something equally irrelevant to what we were experiencing, but it felt like we were so in tune with each other that everyone around us was moving in slow motion. It was straight out of the movie, Serendipity or was it a Nicholas Sparks movie? Who knows. But it’s the scene where the couple is looking at each other and the entire world seems to slow down or disappear around them. That was us– minus the cute coffee shop and NYC holiday scene – but the out of this world love was there. Even if we were in the food court at the Dover Mall having a coffee and talking pop music. But we both felt it. So much so that we actually stopped the conversation and looked at each other peculiarly as if to say, “Did you feel that?” And we did. We still talk about that time. But when it happened 8.5 years ago, we talked it about it in another way.
If we feel like this now, we can get through anything…
If we can just always remember this time, we will have the best marriage…
If we are feeling like this now, we must be soulmates…
But as the years passed and we had children that experience became more of a past pleasantry and less of a world changing – earth haulting – time stopping moment where are souls connected forever. And why? If something that crazy good happened to us, why can’t we still feel that feeling? Why can’t we get back there? Have we lost our love for each other? Have we forgotten that love? Have we changed too much?
All those thoughts would haunt me straight into a divorce if I didn’t know any better. And in fact, I do know better because I have been there. I have been on that ugly side of divorce where I have heard and said words like, “I am not in love with you anymore.” I have been on the side of not being able to eat for a month because of being depressed and feeling like a failure. And it is awful. I sometimes hate that I have been there, but I think I was there for a reason. Some of which I am still figuring out, but a lot of it, I believe, is so I can use this platform to celebrate marriage with knowing how hard it can be…
I have learned that marriage is worth fighting for…
I have learned that love is an verb word, not a noun…
I have learned that not giving up, means getting through the ugly times to build a beautiful life together…
I have learned that God is needed…
I have learned that valuing and respecting my husband yields the best results for my marriage and my heart…
I have learned to pray and hold hands even when I am prideful and hurt….
I have learned that whether my husband has changed or our circumstances are different, my commitment to him must be steadfast…
I have learned that if you don’t give up, and you work together every day, it can get better…
I have felt small glimpses of God’s redeeming and restoring love in my marriage.
This year I want to love my husband more fiercely! I want to celebrate our marriage more and I want to do it alongside other couples who want to do the same. Are you in?
Since this year I want to celebrate marriage, I wanted to focus even more on the couple. I want to focusing on the marriage in the family unit and I wanted to start the year off by launching a promotion that will surely celebrate your marriage.
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