This is the response to a question I asked my 5th grade teacher on Facebook regarding how she has stayed married for so long. All I have to say is I've been doing it completely wrong! So thank you for still being able to teach me something 40ish years later.
Martha J Oakley Junkunc Hm....well, there is that strong love thing. Then there's bodacious amounts of laughter, being totally comfortable - and 100% authentic - with each other. We share with and listen to each other. We both love the same things with nature being a major part of that. I'm the animal handler, Sandy is not. We respect each other. Our strengths complement each other we've found through very difficult situations (having a total car breakdown in New York by the walls of an institution for the criminally insane from which a patient had just escaped; being towed to a rest stop by a trucker, and finding no phone there, taken to the next city, Darien, CT, where we called New York AAA who wouldn't help us because we weren't with the car, and the CT AAA wouldn't help us because the car was in another state). That was on our honeymoon. Sandy is hopelessly analytical and methodical while I am SO not - a complimentary situation. We're both creative in different areas of the arts, and we both appreciate the other's art form. I'm into music (for 62 years now, 53 of which as a church organist) and Sandy's into painting, writing, and photography. It's important in our relationship that we were each independent before we got married, so we know how to do things for ourselves.
Martha J Oakley Junkunc Hm....well, there is that strong love thing. Then there's bodacious amounts of laughter, being totally comfortable - and 100% authentic - with each other. We share with and listen to each other. We both love the same things with nature being a major part of that. I'm the animal handler, Sandy is not. We respect each other. Our strengths complement each other we've found through very difficult situations (having a total car breakdown in New York by the walls of an institution for the criminally insane from which a patient had just escaped; being towed to a rest stop by a trucker, and finding no phone there, taken to the next city, Darien, CT, where we called New York AAA who wouldn't help us because we weren't with the car, and the CT AAA wouldn't help us because the car was in another state). That was on our honeymoon. Sandy is hopelessly analytical and methodical while I am SO not - a complimentary situation. We're both creative in different areas of the arts, and we both appreciate the other's art form. I'm into music (for 62 years now, 53 of which as a church organist) and Sandy's into painting, writing, and photography. It's important in our relationship that we were each independent before we got married, so we know how to do things for ourselves.