29

My parents celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary this weekend. Living in a society where people cant manage to stay together and divorce is a rising epidemic. This was very comforting. I know that everyone always says how much they admired their parents , but i really did. Not only were they together, they were happy. It seemed that the happiness had grown even more the older they had gotten. Im sure this was because they werent raising two children and stressed out as much. They only concentrated on eachother. I grew up in a house based on respect. My father had never had a macho mentality , which was rare amoung salvadorean families, and my mother had always put her family first . When i looked at them now i got a little insight as to how they might have been when they had first started dating. I saw them as the young adults who had decided to move to this country and start a family, always looking out for one another, always a team. I asked my mom what it had been like to have married at 23 and stayed married till now. She answered with , " I havent felt these years go by, you dont have to try so hard when it feels unnatural not to love someone"