Here's one more to dad

So it is still not father's Day and I figured I would add another post only this one is for my husband. The father of our two boys. Dan and I met in high school. We started dating my junior year. He was a senior then. We dated for four years before we finally got married. We eloped and when our first year anniversary came we told everyone we were married. So here's a story about my husband.....
Dan went off to the Navy in 1977. He went through bootcamp came home and we got officially engaged and had plans to marry in a Catholic church in June when he would be done with "A" school. He was studying to become a tradevman. They worked on flight simulators. Dan says its the next best thing to Disneyland. Anyway, while he was in Memphis at "A" school both he and I went through a lot of changes. I was pushed into calling off the wedding by my parents and his and he kept writing me about girls he was meeting and I had met a young man who was going to be a dentist and he interested me (a little, sorta, well not really but maybe....) So when Dan came back from Memphis I was seriously considering calling off our relationship entirely. Dan persuaded me to wait until we took a few days by ourselves and went camping. This is something I highly recommend for every couple. Take three days and four nights and go camping with no TV and no one else to keep you entertained. Don't take books or radios or fishing rods (unless you both like to fish) and go with the very barest provisions. I highly recommend this.
Anyway, Dan and I got Dan's father's camper and headed for a camping site on the ST. Joe River. He was sure it would be full since it was just after July 4th. The site was empty. Not another person in site. I learned a lot about my ruture husband that trip. He had a great sense of humor, he was not into nature as in a nature child. (nudism was not his bag) and he preferred me to not be a nature child either. The water from the river was wonderful and I had forgotten my suit. I love skinny dipping (in private) and Dan loved hanging out on the shore with a towel extended trying to get me to cover up and not show my bod to anyone else. Nevermind that there was no one else... He was just modest. We spent a lot of time walking and talking and we spent time falling in love all over again. Someone once told me that you dont always stay in love.. there will be times in every relationship where you fall out of love and then fall back in love but the trick is to never fall out of "like" . I have liked my husband for a very long time now. He is still my best friend. He knows secrets about me that no one else does and he has never betrayed my trust. He is truly a wonderful guy. There really is no end to this story. Dan and I came back from camping and decided we would get married after I got my "AA" degree. We waited one more year for that and then when I started moving toward getting our wedding planned my parents objected again and I decided I would move in with Dan instead. We got married a month later. I guess the funny thing about our first anniversary was that I had decided I still wanted a church wedding. The Catholics did not think a civil marriage was legit so I sent a letter to a priest in Spokane explaining our situation and that I wanted the civil marriage to be a secret so our parents would think we got married on our formal wedding. Dan's mother disliked the idea of him marrying a Catholic and I had explained her hesitancy toward our marriage as well. (In short I was going to Hell and I was taking her son with me!!) So the priest in an effort to establish familial peace decided he should talk with my mother in law about our future marriage. Not being able to share what I had shared with him, he made a cold call to my mother in law without my knowledge or consent. I guess everything went fine but about a week later we get this call from my mother in law. "Dan, I just had the strangest visit and you will never guess who with... A priest.... Yes, he just called me out of the blue and suggested we should talk so he could explain the principles of the catholic church. Isn't that strange? He was very nice and we had a very nice talk but I haven't any clue as to why he felt he needed to talk to me.. It was just very weird. No I didn't know him at all.... Isn't that strange? Well, it is the Catholic Church and they do operate from a different world....." So we called off the formal wedding and on our wedding anniversary we told our families we had been married for a year. It was an awful anniversary! Actually our anniversaries were all awful until Dan and I reached our 10th anniversary. Then they began improving and by our 20th we had it down. We have been married for 25 years now. On our anniversary I will tell you about spending your first anniversary telling your family you have been married for a year.... Not pretty!!! Very Bad!!! Talk with ya soon....R