Impossibility

If you haven’t read the story of how I met my wife… you are missing out… it is a great story.  But greater than that are some of the details of how impossible it is that Kimberly and I ended up together.   At the time that I decided to make my list with the description of the perfect woman for me one of the top items on my list was this

“I want her to feel as lucky to be with me as I feel to be with her”   That may come across as cheesy and sappy to you but after all the relationships that I had tried there was always the part of the relationship that one of you felt like you were doing the other a favor just by staying together.  To me that was intolerable, It was just asking for trouble.  Amazingly that item being on my list, has been perfectly satisfied. Somehow after almost 8 years of being together both Kimberly and I feel like we are getting away with something!  As impossible as it may sound almost every day I look into her eyes and think “man did I hit the jackpot with this one!”   And I cannot count the times that Kimberly tells me that she is convinced that she “won the husband lottery”   Last week as we were discussing how great each other was   Kimberly brought up the fact that it was pretty amazing that my list explicitly requested such a relationship and yet here we sat eight years later building each other up and fulfilling that desire that was in my heart long ago.  I know a lot of people…and while most of the couples I know are great together,  I can honestly say it is extremely extremely rare to find relationships these days that resemble the relationship that I have with Kimberly.  To my knowledge I haven’t seen one yet ….

Before you get all upset that “my marriage is better than yours”  Thats not the point of this… Kim and I have to work on our marriage just like anybody else… but to us the amazing thing is that God actually went to the trouble of answering my request for a specific type of relationship with my wife… the chances of that happening by coincidence… well that is pretty much an impossibility in my opinion.