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30 Years of COMFORTABLE

Relationships are strange.   So many factors involved: what is their purpose, how much energy must be devoted to them, what do we get out of them…   I confess that I am not the type of person to over-examine things, relationships included.   I hear of friends writing PLANS, 5 or 10 year schedules, for their lives and relationships.   You aren’t going to find such a plan on my laptop (or in one of the many half-used legal pads laying around the house).   I guess what I am trying to say is: I happened on a relationship that somehow just works .   It works without a real PLAN.   It works with very sporadic disputes.   It works without much fuss or caretaking – it just works.   And trust me, I know how lucky that is. Springtime in DC - trees are starting to bloom I realize I am (we are) fortunate to have somehow stumbled on each other 30 YEARS AGO.  Yesterday (Easter) was our 30 year anniversary.  We celebrate the anniversary of the day we began dating, which seems more spec