Happy Birthday My Dear!!!!!

Today is a very special day in the life a very special person to me; today is my wife’s birthday. Yes, I missed the last two and one of those was birthdays was a “unique” number and I won’t give away my wife’s age not that she really cares but I prefer to leave that up to her. Yes, I did miss that “unique” number birthday and the year after but today I am here and by the grace of God I am able to share the day with my wife. I can go on and on about how wonderful my wife is and how incredible she has been over the past three plus years. I put her through things no person should ever endure and I am so sorry she had to endure those events. However; ever since that very first day when I broke the extremely unfortunate news she has been an incredible wealth of support. I remember her saying after I broke the news to her and she went through a very emotional outburst that “we will get through this together.”

Oh my goodness she was right and continues to be incredible. My wife had no idea what she was facing when she made that statement yet it has come true. I completely turned her world upside down and the worlds of our children’s were turned upside down as well. My wife was forced to move across the country and essentially became a single parent for two years as I paid for my actions. Thankfully my wife was surrounded by love and support through incredible family members. Yes, my wife was faced with a decision to either remain on the East Coast or return to California where we could build our lives back together. I am eternally grateful she chose to come back to California where we are building an incredible life together.

I have known my wife all my adult life and our relationship started as high school sweethearts. We do have a great deal of history and have been married for over 16 years now. I have seen my wife grow into a beautiful woman and more importantly a beautiful person. In Gamblers Anonymous we talk about not taking inventory of others and my wife has always practiced this principle. She is the least judgmental person I have ever met and she is excels at “going with the flow”. I know there were times over the past two years where this “flow” seemed insurmountable but somehow she made it through with flying colors. My love continues to grow each and every day for this incredible woman; I love her so very much. Happy Birthday!!!

Today I purposely blocked out my schedule so we could find some “adult” time for just the two of us. I took the children to school giving my wife the morning to do whatever she wanted. My wife has an incredible friend who has been there for my wife over these past few years and the two of them went out for some “coffee” this morning. I had work to do and completed most of this work as I headed into the office for a quick meeting. It was a quick meeting because I had lunch plans with my dear wife this afternoon. This was part of our “adult” time as the children were at school.

I must say my wife is not only a wonderful person I swear she gets more beautiful each day. She is so pretty and the angst of the last few years is slowly fading from her being. God certainly did me a huge favor putting my wife in my life and I know 26 years ago when we first met my wife had no idea what was in store for her. First I whisked her out of New Jersey the year after we were married as we moved to Las Vegas and then the events of the past two years. However; in between those times we have been blessed with two incredible children and my wife did an amazing job providing normalcy for them in a very abnormal set of circumstances. Saying that I am blessed to have the presence of my wife in my life would be a huge understatement. I am certainly blessed and without my wife I am nothing and with her I am complete; my wife does complete me and I am so happy I was able to finally be with her on her birthday. Happy birthday my dear I LOVE YOU!!!!