Ten Reasons Why I Love My Wife!

Sam mentioned that this would be OUR blog, right? Well, that means that I get MY say in here, too!

May I present, for your viewing pleasure, the

Top Ten Reasons I Love My Wife!

10) She cooks me great food all the time.

This woman knows how to cook. She hasn't cooked anything yet that I haven't liked. My favorite so far? Tacos.

9) She always knows how to calm me down when I'm upset.

I can't count the number of times that I've come home stressed or worried about things (mostly school), and she's talked me down, reassured me, told me she still loves me, and generally helped me put my head on straight. I love her for that.

8) Green Onions ;)

This is a fun little inside joke between the two of us. If you're curious, ask one of us in person about the green onions and we'll tell you.

7) She's helped me grow closer to my own family.

Believe it or not, my family has had some problems during my childhood and adolescence. We may have drifted farther apart than is necessarily a very good thing. But Sam always makes it a priority to ask me about how my folks are doing, and to make sure we take time out of our lives to visit them and to make sure they're a part of our lives.

6) She's so good looking!

She's already posted the wedding pictures, right? You can easily tell which of the two of us is better looking. (Hint: It isn't me!)

5) Cute text messages throughout the day.

It just makes the day better when she sends me a quick update on how her day has been going, and letting me know that she loves me.

4) She's helped me understand myself better.

We're only a few months in, but we've had a lot of conversations about who I am, what I'm like, and why she loves me so much. That's huge, because it helps me better understand my own strengths and weaknesses, and so it gives me that much more confidence to pursue my dreams.

3) We grow closer every day.

With conversations like those, how could we do anything but grow closer? We've had some of the deepest, most meaningful conversations that I've had in my life, and it only gets better. When we love and respect each other to boot, it's impossible not to grow closer to each other.

2) We grow closer to God every day, together.

This one is huge for me. Sam always tells me that I've helped her grow more spiritual, but it boggles my mind, because I feel exactly the same way about her; she's helped ME grow that much closer to God. Either way, there's a great spirit that we can feel in the apartment home we have.

1) We'll be together forever.
:) It's only going to get better with time. We do have our share of disagreements, yes. But we never make the disagreement more important than the relationship, and we'll both gladly back down well before things hit a boiling point. (Usually. I mean, no one's perfect.) Things will only get better, and not even death will end our relationship.

-TAJ