my wife

Over the last few days, I have been thinking alot about my wife, Paulette. Not in a dirty way, but how much she really makes me happy and what a blessing she is in my life. Just a little history about us.... We have known each other since we were kids, 31/2 years old infact, and we have been best friends ever since. As I think back, I know that she always liked me. In kindergarden our sisters were friends, so I would go with Kimmy to walk to school with Jen and Paulette. My shy heart almost burst when she kissed me on the way to school one day. I was five and didn't know what to think so I turned red in the face and kept walking to school. Since then, we were always friends. I can honestly say that in Jr High, and High School we weren't as close of friends. I was spending alot of time in afterschool activities, and Paulette had her music. Although now I know that those years would have been easier with another shoulder to lean on. We went to church together but we just weren't as close. Our senior year was the year that we started to hang out more and a few more friends came into our wierd group. It wasn't until we graduated and I was getting ready to go on a mission that I began to realize that I was falling in love. However I had already sent in my mission papers and decided I was going and why complicate things. I also conviently left out that I was chicken when speaking to people, especially girls. Infact, I would have left to go to Argentina without even asking her out on a single date, then she asked me out to dinner and a movie. We watched Prince of Egypt and named Bobfag the Camel. When I took her home, I felt pretty bad and couldn't stand it so I said, "You'll probably be married when I get back." Then I left. On my mission, I was very busy, and wasn't very good about writting letters home. When I got home, I was home for a day and a half then flew to Arizona to see Paulette. Nice when you're parents move while you're gone. Paulette left that next monday to go on her mission to Australia. When she got home, I waited 6months to call her because I was afraid that she may have changed or that she may not feel the same about me. Anyways.... to make a long story short, we were married July 5, 2003 in the Mesa Arizona temple. Like any new couple, we have our strugles and things that we want to improve. At times in the past, things have seemed almost unbearable. It has been a continuing learning process to sort out feelings, desires, and why things cause certain feelings, and desires. I love my wife very much and i what her to be happy. I hope that i can be the strenght that she needs.

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