Vows v04
If you want an explanation of our annual renewing of our vows on our anniversary, you can follow the meme back through the years, starting with last year’s.
What a great anniversary this year, as My Baby surprised me with a dinner at Ray’s Boathouse. Proving that she really understands me, she made the surprise brilliant by setting my expectations that we were going to go work out. Going from a workout to a delicious dinner is about the widest swing from low expectations to high enjoyment that you could get.
Anyway, on to the vows, with this year’s addition bolded.
Baby,
I promise you that I will always be the things that made you fall in love with me: honest and transparent, funny and witty, open-minded and creative, adoring.
I promise you i will never stop pampering and courting you.
I promise you will always be my muse, and I will draw daily inspiration from you. I promise to return the favor by trying to inspire you daily.
I promise to work on being a better husband: to talk to you, to tell you what I’m feeling, and to engage in continual self-evaluation.
I promise to prioritize us, without sacrificing you or me. I promise to always make room for us in my life, and to make sure you know when I think we need to adjust to get to the right level of us in both of our lives.
I promise to try to love the things about you that are just in your nature, such as the telltale hair monster left behind everywhere you’ve been.
I promise to make a fuss over you when you’re sick, to love you and support you and take your side when you’ve had a bad day. I promise to listen to you tell me about your bad day and to refrain from giving you unsolicited solutions.
I promise that I will do my best to learn how we are as one, and to take into account how my mood and actions affect you.
I promise to try to recover quickly from disagreements. I promise to do my best to stay on the high road. And I promise to forgive and forget mistakes said and done in the heat of the moment.
I promise to be stubbornly filled with determined, creative solutions to the most gridlocked, vexing situations.
I promise you that I will help you and support you to achieve your dreams. And I promise that, with your support, I will pursue my mine as well. I promise never to stop taking new risks and adventures with you.
I promise you physical, emotional, and mental fidelity. I promise that you will always be my baby that i adore completely with my mind, body, and soul, and i promise to trust that you adore me as well.
And above all, baby, I promise to be always on your team. And I will do my best to make our team the envy of every other team at the party of life.
August 24th, 2009 at 7:02 am
[...] For an explanation of what’s going on, you can start tracing back the re-stating of the vows tradition with last year’s post. [...]