This is us now.
There's something to be said about marrying your best friend.
Someone who matches up with your core values.
Someone who is actually really similar to you in a lot of ways. In the good ways. Mostly.
It's also true that "longevity" doesn't necessarily mean "success".
And willingness and persistence to stick it out helps when it counts.
To be able to grow together and learn through experience and communication.
To support one another in life and to aid in each other's interests and goals, even when you don't fully agree with them.
Fourteen years ago, I met the person that stuck. The person who didn't lose interest. Who actually had building interest that didn't wane over time. Someone who felt like home the first day we met. I had a "memory" of knowing him when we were kids, from another life perhaps, playing in a sandbox together, and we've been those kids in that sandbox ever since. Stealing and sharing each other's toys, bickering and bullying and making up, as if nothing had…