Around this time of year, Andrea and I celebrate our wedding anniversary. There is a real date, we (that’s right… we… not just me) never seem to remember which date it is — it’s somewhere between the 5th and the 7th of February. The fact that none of our relatives have called to wish us a happy anniversary yet suggests that maybe we have the date wrong… again.
The date’s not so important to us and we’ve never been so invested in making a big deal out of our anniversary. Having said that, ten years is a nice round number that’s easy to get excited about.
After I proudly announced our anniversary on Twitter this morning, our friend Susan Murphy sent a congratulations message and I started to think that it really shouldn’t be such a big deal that we’ve been married for ten years. I suppose there are a lot of relationship stories that suggest otherwise. I replied by saying “It’s easy and fun. Anyone can do it.”
There’s no major magic to making your relationship and anniversary something worth celebrating that doesn’t need to be celebrated at all. I’ll share the secret with you. Celebrate your relationship everyday. It sounds corny, but if your relationship is worth a big annual event involving a babysitter, limo and an expensive dinner, then it’s worth celebrating with the little things on a daily basis (btw, we once celebrated our anniversary with daycare friends and a few boxes of KD). You shouldn’t have to wait for a full year to remind your partner how much you love them, appreciate them and have fun being with them. And you don’t even have to be Facebook friends to prove it.
