During one of our nostalgia nights we also looked over both children’s baby books. It’s easy to forget little things that happen, so it was fun to reminisce about the cute and funny things they said and some of the antics they got up to.
What was interesting when we went through baby books, we found some names of people we received gifts and cards from were names we couldn’t place. The same happened with some of the slides, we found there were people that we used to know but we simply couldn’t remember who they were. It seems we are in the habit of losing people. They drift out of our lives. Have you got people like that, who have drifted out of your life?
Sometimes it happens through moving house, either they have moved or we have moved. Despite good intentions to keep in touch it doesn’t always work out that way. This happens more if they were casual acquaintances rather than friends. Others times there doesn’t seem to be any reason we can pinpoint. We just drift apart. The main thing though is that we don’t let that happen in our marriage. That we don’t drift apart. It’s easy enough done if we don’t focus on each other.
Recently as our daughter was moving she came across a photo of Mick and I turned to face each other. Actually we’ve got another on our wall in the same pose. Over the years of our married life we’ve had a lot of photos taken that way, smiling into each other’s eyes. Maybe that’s not a bad analogy for marriage – that we’re always turned to face each other. It has epitomized our relationship.
Interestingly enough, our daughter made a similar comment. ‘That’s so typically you two,’ she said with a smile and a hug. It made me think again that the best gift we can give children are two parents who love each other. It gives them a solid foundation on which to build their own relationships.
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