Why did I marry my man?

That is my husband and that is my friends daughter, Jessica.

The question of the day is...why did I marry this man? Why did I walk away from an engagement to someone else, to marry a man who made a pass at me while we were at work?

I married Todd because he made me laugh and he kept lots of people around him. I married him because he made me better than who I was. I married him because he inspired me to want and ask for more out of life. I married him because he is so headstrong and so hardworking. I married him because I saw the potential of a great, strong, capable adult, in the young man who drove me crazy.

Todd always has a joke, or some obscure news story on the tip of his tounge. He has sound effects for objects and voices for the dogs. He likes to do stuff and go places and investigate new things. He is obsessed with music and loves to keep me filled with new songs everyday. He inspired me to go to college for awhile and prove that I wasn't dumb and that I could get excellent grades and maybe even get a degree. He makes me want to be a better person and better mother, because he is such a good man.. I don't want to flaw him. Todd loves our friends and so do I. Our friends are a big part of our life and I love that he understands and supports the value in maintaining strong bonds.
I have 15 years of memories of fun and laughter with our friends and these are the strings that knit our life. Todd was always a hard worker and always looking for up. No one thought he would do what he does today, but I did. I saw it in him. He just needed the confindence and the reason to depend on himself and his hands. He provides for us and I can depend on that, even if he lost his job today... he would have another by the end of the week. There is value in that type of man. Strong and capable and sweet and pleasing and so tolerant of me and my shinanagins.

Now, I would marry him again because he is so wonderful and open. He loves the kids and is such a loving father. He hugs and kisses and plays. He doesn't tolerate alot of crap and he expects obediance the first time, which he doesn't always get, but he still shows unconditional love after every incident. The kids have never doubted that Daddy loves them. Todd is so full of love, that he has stepped up to be Jessica's Dad when she needs him. He has chaperoned dates and played chauffer. He has some of the harder conversations about boys and he always has her best interest in mind. He provides the hugs and praise she desperatly needs and the guidance that she should have from a father. She trusts him and tells him things that she wouldn't tell me or her mother. So, he got the girl he always wanted. I would marry him now, because I still have fun with him and still laugh with him and he still makes me smile and I feel safe with him, despite all that we have been through. People don't know what we have done to each other, but the comment I get the most is how comfortable we seem and how close we seem and how you can feel the love between us. We married our best friend basically and that is why we have made it 15 years in February 2006.