This past Sunday my parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Nowadays anyone making it last that long is pretty impressive. Both my parents were married before, so the fact that this is a so called second marriage is even more impressive. They spent the weekend in a little hotel together and went and saw the Beach Boys (who my mom was afraid would die on stage :P )and probably did romantic crap I don’t want to think about my parents doing. When I asked my mom how she made it work for 40 years she first laughed and said she didn’t know. But then she got a little silent (the hamster wheels were a turning in her head) and came back with compromise. At first I thought I heard my dad shout in the back ground “and she beats me a lot” which I then started laughing. Turns out what he really said was “I give in a lot”. I’m not entirely sure that is true. The other thing she said is that they tried their very best to put each other first, especially during the kid … [Read more...]