Write Your Story

How did you meet your spouse?  Is it a crazy story?  Was it love at first sight?  How long did you date?  Did you have a long engagement? 

I feel like these are questions that my daughter is going to ask one day.  She's going to want to know the story of how my husband and I met and ask a whole bunch of questions.  Luckily for her, my husband and I recorded all of that.

We documented it over a couple of nights.  We took turns going through the big events and each sharing what we were feeling or thinking during those times.  It was so much fun because not only did I get to hear my husband's side of the story, but there were things I didn't know.  It was so fun because we were reliving it.

Record your own story.  Do it with pictures and captions.  Write it down.  Record it on a tape (that's what we did).  Not only so you always have it and can remember those little details, but also for your posterity.  I think it'll be awesome one day when my grandchild is digging through my old boxes and comes across this awesome story.

Relationship reconnection:  Take something from your story and recreate it.  Whether it's the food you ate on your first date or a movie that you watched.  Maybe you will take your spouse to the place where you proposed or where you got married.  Reminisce and talk about what impacted you the most about that specific something.

I put this picture in this post because my husband and I are doing the relationship reconnection.  Jeff and I came to this spot to look out over the Mississippi River on our first date.  He got the courage to put his arm around me while we were sitting at this bench.  This picture is from our wedding day.  We went back to the bench and took a picture.

Happy dating!