Do you remember your wedding vows and have you ever gone back and read them again? 

Having declared your intent at your wedding, the officiant probably said something like this — I’ll use Janet and George for ease in the hopes you’ll do the obvious and replace them with your own names:

“Janet and George since it is your intention to marry, please join your right hands, and with your promises bind yourselves to each other as husband and wife:

Please repeat after me….

I, George, take you, Janet, to be my wife; and I promise, before God and these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful husband; in plenty and in want; in joy and in sorrow; in sickness and in health; as long as we both shall live.

Janet, will you repeat these vows after me: 

I, Janet, take you, George, to be my husband; and I promise, before God and these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful wife; in plenty and in want; in joy and in sorrow; in sickness and in health; as long as we both shall live.”

This many years later, be it 2 or 20 or 60 years later, how are you doing when it comes to keeping those sacred vows?

If your story is beautiful and brave or sad and brutal, or a mix of all….

Please let me know. I want to hear from you.