Have you heard Brad Paisley's song "Then"
{Yes, more about Brad... I promise I'm not obsessed}
It's "our" song, mine and the hubby's.
I love it.
And I'll admit when he sang it at his concert, I teared up.
When Jeff and I were engaged his lovely mom said to him:
You think you love Jen now, but just wait. In 20 years you're going to love her so much more.
Well, it's only been 15 years, but she was right. I knew she was right after only a couple years though. Every year I'm surprised that I love him even more than I did the year before.
Okay, so now let me explain my title. When Jeff and I were first married I had this college friend, Jill Love. We were both education majors and had a couple classes together. She was a newly wed as well. I think we were married a week apart or something like that.
Sweet Jill was having a hard time and she would ask me how Jeff and I were doing so well. We had our troubles too. I don't really know any newly weds who don't. {Why don't people ever mention that??} We always talk about the wonderful times and forget to mention that it's A-OK to have hard times too. Marriage is hard! And the first year? Well, for a lot of people it's the hardest... it was for us. Good, but not easy.
Anyway, Jill didn't see our hard times, she just saw us... happy.
So, when she asked me. I told her the truth. It wasn't always easy, but we, Jeff and I, had one great thing in common, one thing that kept us on the same train track.
Our Faith.
I shared a Book of Mormon with her a week or two later.
Then I got pregnant with my oldest and didn't go back for my senior year of college.
Jill and I lost touch and I often wonder: What happen to my friend Jill Love?
I hope she's happy. I hope she's in love. I hope she and her husband made it through those hard times, finding their path.
I hope they can say, "And I thought I loved you then."
So sweet!!
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