Pine Hill Road Diaries: "11-Years and Still Going!!!!"

I’m on the last two week before my wife and I are to celebrate our 11^th Wedding Anniversary. Darn, it’s been that long. I spoke with my father last night and said he and my mom have been married for 46 years. My mother’s parents have been married for 60 years. It seems as though I come from a family who believes in and cherish the bond of marriage. Sounds cool! In today’s fast pace and high tech digital age, marriage and its purpose seem to be taking a backseat to union and family values.

How many friends do I have who are not married, have never been married, and have no taste to be married? Too many. The majority of our (Daniela and I) friends are single. I have never been an advocate of married and single people hanging out together. It just does not work. Married people do married people things, whereas single people do single people things. My single friends go out during the week. I cannot go out during the week because I need to make sure my wife and children are good for the next day. My single friends go out to look for women. I do not need to be in that environment because I have a wife and that would only create atmospheres of temptations. Now, do not get it twisted, I have single friends and will not give them up. The difference is, those friends would never do anything to jeopardize my marriage and actually are strong advocates of my wife and I being married.

My wife and I are in love. We have issues every now and again. We tend to care, sometimes, about the other so much we forget about ourselves. We both believe in that old school marriage of each of us having duties and sharing others. I hope we are blessed by God to get to where my parents and grandparents are. I guess as long as we focus on one another and our family and ourselves more, we can do it.