Being married is...

...delightful, a dream come true, wonderful, amazing, fabulous, marvelous, magnificent, phenomenal, incredible.

While everything listed above rings true to my personal experience on being married, it is also hard work.

Very hard work.

Think of signing a lifelong contract with a phone company that does not provide you the best coverage it claims; when you are frustrated, wanting to make a phone call at that exact moment, you don't have any reception.

But most of the time, this phone company provides, offers everything you need. Not everything you want, but everything you need.

I cannot believe in just two more weeks, we will be celebrating our 6th anniversary. Six years of marital bliss, mixed in with a little bit of disappointments, and cloudy days. But I am willing to do it all over again, from day one.

I have learned to accept his imperfections, and still choose to love him despite of those. I have realized that you don't live happily ever after. I have accepted that I am not always right, no matter what. I have concluded that he is just as fragile and sensitive as I am. Most of all, I have prayed for a wonderful husband, but God did not give me a wonderful husband.

He gave me so much more than that.

I have also learned, when you have been married for 6 years, with two children and no personal life, going out on dates is a luxury.

Nevertheless, we treasure this short-lived luxury, with all our hearts, our souls, our beings.

Even if it's just a trip to a yogurt store.

"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."

~Amy Bloom~