10 Things I Learned From 10 Years of Marriage
Today is my tenth wedding anniversary. On the one hand, a decade of marriage has flown by. It seems like yesterday that I was thirty-two and exchanging vows with the girl I call my Adventure Partner. On the other hand, so much has happened in the last ten trips around the sun that it feels like forever. We traveled to different countries and experienced different cultures. We fostered, adopted, and had biological children, going from zero to four in two years, then adding another this year. We moved five times in four years. I wrote and published a novel; my wife launched multiple companies. And those are just a few of the high notes. The last ten years have offered many experiences and lessons, and we've gained some wisdom and perspective. I've boiled the important lessons down to a few bullet points. Here are the ten things I've learned from ten happy years of marriage. Share a bank account. If you don’t trust each other with money, you don’t trust each other. Every couple fights about money; you are unlikely to be an exception. On the other hand, if you can get on the same page with finances, you'll [...]
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