We've been a couple since I was 18 and he was 19, about 10 years now, because we met so young we have grown up together a lot. I have been teasing him this weekend about how much lower key we are then when we met. We will both now admit without shame that an ideal Saturday night often involves being home by 8:00 curled up on the couch watching procedural detective shows, whereas when we met and I wasn't legal to drink I thought nothing could possibly be better than staying out as late as possible because WE DIDN'T LIVE AT HOME ANYMORE!
He has helped me to be a calmer happier person. I tend to be a little ball of stressed out anxiety, with a special talent for taking any problem and assuming the worst possible outcome. He on the other hand is the calmest person I have ever met with a constant view that everything is going to work out. Just because it has to. This calm attitude has been a rock for me with my infertility journey, his quiet confidence that our becoming parents is a matter of when not if.
I like to think that I have expanded his culinary universe. When we first met his favorite food was spaghetti and he had never really had a lot of food that was unusual or spicy. He still is not obsessed with food and talking about food the way my family is, but his taste's have become much more gourmet. I am very proud that his most favorite birthday cake is no longer store bought mix but my home-made chocolate marble chiffon cake. So yesterday I was more than happy to spend the majority of my afternoon beating egg whites to stiff peaks, folding them into the batter, carefully separating the batter and mixing in the chocolate and pouring it into the pan to get it just right. And it made me so very happy to see his delight as he ate his second slice after dinner.
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