Michelle and I met in 1992 and started dating in 1993. We’ve been joined at the hip ever since.
Through the years we’ve had countless adventures, a few misadventures, and of course our share of heartbreaks.
There are so many stories I could tell, most of them beautiful memories, some a little more rough around the edges, but those are for a different time, with my closest friends, around a campfire, and eating good food. This is about something Michelle and I discovered early in our relationship, something that has brought us through some bad times, something that saved my life.
Laughter.
Michelle and I have built a wonderful relationship on love, on respect, on honesty, but without laughter, without the simple, magical quality of laughter, we would never have made it this far. On my worst day, laughter is what brought me back from the brink, back to where I belonged, back to where I wanted to be.
When things are at their worst, I always come back to the reality that Michelle still has the ability to make me laugh to the point of tears. She gets me. I’m her person, flaws and all, and for me, that’s all I need.