…today and we will celebrate another year of being not just husband and wife, but best friends.
I hear people say they aren’t happy in their relationship, and I find it really sad. You should feel as close to and know your spouse as well as you do yourself.
There will always be hard times and disappointment in every relationship, but with your commitment to each other comes great responsibility to that other person. Love that person more than you love yourself and they’ll then return it the same way. Support each other and be happy together.
I love my life and I love my husband. He allows me to be me. In every way I choose and in all the ways that I’ve changed. No one stays the same person they married. I’ve also heard it said, that a persons personality changes every 9 years. So we must adapt ourselves to those changes, not only in ourselves but in each other. Let the other person feel what they’re feeling at the time, even if we don’t agree that’s the right way to handle it. Respect is key here.
I started to write my husband some corny poem, and give him the traditional watch (he’d never wear), but it wasn’t how I was feeling today. He knows that I love everything about him. I may not like all the things that he does nor he I yet, it’s through our commitment to each other, we bare it.
I have a fount of useless information about classic muscle cars and he has a working knowledge of gardening, not that he will ever do it, but he helps when I ask and that’s all I can ask of him.
So, I am looking forward to our next 31 years with the same enthusiasm (maybe even more so) and commitment, than the first thirty-one. I wrote him a love note when we were dating and I told him, “That I’d love him for life… because nothing lasts forever.” I know now, that it’s commitment that makes everything last, and that is forever.
Happy 31st Anniversary… I love you, Hun!
ah… don’t worry, it won’t last 6 months! lol
Making commitments generates hope. Keeping commitments generates trust. ~ Blaine Lee
Metcalf Family Mews 
April 22, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Hello Sheila,
I never had the opportunity to marry, because of taking care of my parents and my nephew who has Muscular Dystrophy.
My parents loved each other and were the best friends. That is the way it is suppose to be.
Beside the above, since I can’t figure out where to make the post:
Jane Boleyn same as Jane Parker
Born Jane Parker, she was the daughter of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley and Alice St. John (the eldest daughter of Sir John St. John). She was born in Norfolk, England around the year 1505 and her family was wealthy, well-connected, politically active and respected members of the English upper-classes. Her father was an intellectual, with a great interest in culture and education.[1] She was sent to Court in her early teens, certainly before her fifteenth birthday, where she joined the household of the King Henry VIII’s wife, Catherine of Aragon. She is recorded as having accompanied the royal party on the famous state visit to France in 1520, which was known as “The Field of the Cloth of Gold”.[2]
Nothing is recorded of Jane’s appearance and there is no surviving portrait which can be identified as her. She was probably considered attractive in her day, given that she was chosen to appear as one of the lead actresses/dancers in the prestigious “Château Vert” masquerade at Court in 1522. The seven performers were selected from the ladies of court in large part for their attractiveness. Two of the other performers included Jane’s future sisters-in-law, Anne and Mary Boleyn.[3]
[edit] Marriage
In late 1524 or early 1525, she was married to George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, brother of Anne Boleyn, later the second queen of King Henry VIII. At this stage, however, Anne was unattached to the King, although she was already one of the leaders of fashionable society.[4] These first encounters with the more sophisticated and glamorous Anne helped create the legend that Jane instantly hated and resented her. However, if this was true, there were no signs of it at the time or for several years to come.
As a wedding present, the King gave Jane and George Grimston Manor in Norfolk.[5] Since she gained the courtesy title of Viscountess Rochford by marriage, she was usually known at Court (and by subsequent historians) as “Lady Rochford”. As the Boleyn family’s wealth and influence increased, the couple were given Beaulieu Palace as their chief residence, which George and Jane decorated with a lavish chapel, a tennis court, a bathroom with hot-and-cold running water, imported carpets, mahogany furniture and their own large collection of silverware. Their marital bed was draped in cloth of gold with a white satin canopy, linen quilts and a yellow counterpane.[6]
Could Jane Parker who is also Jane Boleyn descend from our Parkers? It’s worth researching.
New Email address: pigg.carolyn54@yahoo.com
April 23, 2010 at 6:26 am
Hello Sheila,
If it’s not a problem, can you send me your email address?
April 23, 2010 at 7:06 am
It’s not a problem, this was nice and you have my email address it’s still vvsfan@msn.com . Thanks for adding the information. You can always post anything you would like on the message board at the top of the page.
Thanks as always,
Sheila Jean Adkins Metcalf