“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
~ Aristotle
It sometimes seems so surreal that Mr. Cottage and I married 47 years ago today! It seems like a long time ago, but it doesn't feel like it's been that long. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun...
Seriously, it's been quite the journey. I'm not going to sugar coat it and say it's been milk and honey. No one's marriage is perfect. You've heard about the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, well that was my family and Mr. Cottage's family was just like the grooms family in that movie. I'm Hungarian and he's English. We were similar in some ways and as different as night and day in other ways...
Back in the day, we were both kids. I wasn't even 21 years old and hadn't graduated from college yet. Mr. Cottage had just started a new job, so he couldn't get much time off from work. Our honeymoon was staying at The Hotel Breakers in Cedar Point, which is in Ohio. We had a small apartment and lots of used and hand-me-down furniture, and I had to commute to the university to complete all my courses for my Bachelor of Science degree. To say we didn't have much money was quite an understatement...
Fast forward to having three kids, both of us working and the chaos that many young couples face. Trying to keep our sanity, we still had many things going for us:
- Communication
- Honesty and Trust
- Love and Commitment to one another
- Being faithful to each other in our marriage
- Being willing to forgive
- Respect for each another
- Our sense of humor
Too many couples today aren't willing to work at their marriage. There's cheating, lying, being self-centered, controlling and lack of respect for your spouse, and the list goes on and on.
We each have changed throughout the years, not only with more gray hair and wrinkles; but our inner selves, too...
I'm just so happy that Mr. Cottage found me and that I found him and that we hope to celebrate many more anniversaries in the years to come.
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Carol,
ReplyDeleteAwwww! LOVE this post! Congratulations on a wonderful marriage and I celebrate you both!
What an inspiration!
karianne
Congratulations! We were married on August 24, 1968…and I think we used the same patterns for our bridesmaids, and I had a yoked dress in heavy cotton lace just like yours.
ReplyDeleteI had two years left for my BS…we've led parallel lives and now we meet on Blogger…Great post!
Happy 47th Anniversary! Your wedding photo caught my eye in the link up--it is so joyful! I am married 41 years this October, and you are so right--all the years went by so quickly! Thankfully we have been very blessed with a happy marriage and beautiful children and grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteMany more happy years ahead!
Congratulations ~ 47 years is wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beatiful tribute!! :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 47 years! We celebrated #40 yesterday, so we are a bit behind you. I agree, the time doesn't seem like 40 years at all, though I really can't remember life without my husband. We are very blessed! Again, congratulations and happy anniversary.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful post! Being married is one of the best things in life and 47 years is just awesome! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!! Great thoughts for people to remember or know when getting married. We have been married 47 years also and agree with your list. I guess from my eyes too, people just don't want to make concessions, to change, to put the marriage first, above themselves. People seem to be so self absorbed to making themselves happy. I too am thankful for meeting my soulmate so young. And I am so happy for the two of you, best wishes from Northern California.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to you and Mr. Cottage!
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Lynda @ Gates of Crystal
Carol, what an adorable couple you were....and are! And what a fabulous post on life and love. One of my favourites. Love, Mimi xxx
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What a great article. Hope you will share with us at our link party #OMHGWW
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Congratulations! Our 47 year anniversary is November 30th. It's nice to see another couple who've been married as long and are still supportive of each other & in love!
ReplyDeleteWe celebrate 12 years this weekend. I didn't realize walking down the aisle on my wedding day, that I'ld love this man more 12 years later. But I do.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary (a few days late) - lovely pictures! I'm visiting from the Weekend ReTreat Link Party
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Angie
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Hi Carol,
ReplyDeleteLove your post. wow....you were a baby like me........I was only 18 1/2 yrs. old when we married hubby was 22............we will be married 45 years in early November.........
Loved seeing your wedding pics, they are beautiful........you make a lovely couple still and you are so right about what it takes to stay married. We teach young marrieds, and we have
a good group, but we see so many who just don't want to try. All marriages take lots of work
and no one just goes thru life without it unless they want to be divorced multiple times.....lol
It is always wonderful to see seasoned couples who are still in love and enjoying their marriages because our culture seriously needs role models today more than ever. I think
their is so much disolutionment out there, so people fool themselves into believing if they
just don't get married then they can just walk away and escape the pain that goes along
with that..........problem is walking away is still very painful and emotionally devastating because in a sense you are married even if you don't have the papers................
Thanks for being a positive role model and for sharing your reasons for success, they are
right on as far as I am concerned..............
Blessings, and Belated Happy 47th,
Nellie
This truly warms my heart! Thank you for sharing!! ( I still have 19 to go to catch up to you!)
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