I married my high school sweetheart after 15 years together — on our first anniversary, I heard him say, “She still has no idea what I’ve been planning.”
Fifteen years of waiting suddenly became romantic instead of painful. Every Christmas without a proposal, every wedding where I had smiled through questions about when my turn was coming, every excuse Wesley had given me seemed worth it.
We were married five months later.
It was a small wedding at my grandmother’s old continue reading …