I Treasure Him

This winter has been so good for our marriage. We’ve been on two family vacations, one to North Dakota for Christmas and then one to Florida. Those were fun and action-packed weeks, but the real relaxing happened on our vacation to the Dominican Republic when it was just the two of us. One full week of me. And him. No kids. No friends. No family. No one. Just Nic and Gloria.

It was incredible to just be by ourselves, it almost felt unreal. To remember how to be nicandgloria again, not Mom and Dad. We had a week to get into that rhythm without kids, to focus on each other, to talk about life or about nothing. To reconnect.

It has made our marriage stronger. Since that trip, I feel like I treasure my husband more. I think he’s funnier. I want to spend more time with him. I want to know what he has to say about allthethings. I feel that closeness that often gets lost in the shuffle of the everyday busyness of work and kids and everything. We prioritize being together again.

Today it has been seven years since we said “I do”. When we stood side by side at the front of the church, I thought I couldn’t possibly love him more than I did in that moment. But through these years of being together, we have grown closer and the love has deepened – sometimes it amazes me by how much.

We have been through darker days than I ever imagined we would go through. At times I felt cheated, that nobody told me it would be like this. But we have also had brighter days than I knew were possible, and the good far outshines the bad.

I would do it all again.