A Long line of Love!

I truly appreciate the teamwork that Aunt Lorraine and Dad exhibited to keep their marriages over the long-haul.
I had occasion, recently to reminisce how much Aunt Lorraine has shared with me about the difficulty of this middle season of marriage. She tells me about the ins and outs of dealing with the emotional season of having health challenges and trying to empathize with the health challenges and hang on to one another when it might get hard. She sometimes calls Uncle a grumpy old man. When she first told me, I thought it gossip and put it aside. I now know that this was real womanly instruction. I am in that season now where my own health challenges and my husband's sometimes collide. Love in the family has prepared me to know that this is not a new phenomenon and I am not the first to have endured it.
They never talked to eachother much as a sister and brother, but they made a pact with eachother to do it a different way than their mom and come what may they are well on the way to accomplishing that goal. I respect that. You made a vow, they say! I didn't like you sometimes either brother and probably when they called eachother they said to eachother, "it could be worse, I could have spent the rest of my life married to you, brother or sister!" I mean I love you and everything, but I am glad to have gotten away from you! :) This time, this love is for keeps, no backsies!