22nd Wedding Anniversary

Today is me and my wife's 22nd wedding anniversary. If you take into account the number of marriages that fail within the first few years and couple it with the fact that I'm Caucasian and my wife is Filipino, you can say that we tremendously beat the odds.

My older son is 26 years-old. He is my adopted stepson. He was 2 years-old when I and his mother met and 5 years-old when the adoption went through. Right now, he's in Germany with his wife who's in the U.S. Air Force. I received an email message from him earlier this morning. My younger son is 21 years-old and going to college at the Global City College on SBMA. He's at school right now.

We don't have anything planned for our anniversary this year. We don't plan to do much of anything with our anniversaries until our 25th in three years. The silver anniversary will probably include something unusual, but I don't know what it is yet.

Having said all that, I'm probably going to spend the rest of the day away from the computer and with my wife, doing the things that she enjoys.

January 25th, 2007 By RT Cunningham | Categories: Life | Tags: anniversaries, holiday, spouse |

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MrCorey on January 25th, 2007 at 7:33 pm (Reply)

When you get back here, you'll see this. Congratulations to both of you for keeping the union strong for so long. In this world of disposable everything, you've not thrown each other away. That's fantastic!

RT Cunningham on January 26th, 2007 at 12:32 am (Reply)

Thanks, Corey, I appreciate that.

Ray&Joy on January 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm (Reply)

Congrats on the 22.
I remember when I went to the mandatory orientation before I was authorized to marry a Filipina. The speaker said that most of us would end up getting a divorce; I forget the exact percentage, but I would venture to say it was probably in the 80% range. My Asawa and I have been married 25+ (I think she's got the exact number). As I think about it, of all the seven associations with other couples we've kept over these 25+ years with others I worked with back then, they are all still married (about the same number of years). Heck, my Brother and his Asawa (someone we introduced him to) have been married 10+ years too. I am trying to recall, but I can not think of anyone I know, that has married a Filipina and then got divorced. Now, I do know four women, who have gone through a marriage or two in the USA. I don't necessarily want to associate the successful long marriage to just because I married a Filipina, but my Asawa has stuck with me during some very hard times in our life(richer, poorer, sickness and health, better or worse, etc - someone put some serious thoughts when they came up with that wording). Lord knows I may not still be around had it not been for her strengths and determinations when things were gloomy for us and or the situations we were in.
Anyway, I need to go, but I ask that the next time you eat some REALLY HOT FRESH pandesal, that you think about those of us who are less fortunate in that regard (not being able to get it that quick from the bakery). Geez, I miss being able to walk over to the bakery and get the HOT pandesal and place a heaping pile of butter on it, then drink a cup of that rich coffee (with a little bit of sugar). Later.
/ Ray
ps: There is frost on the vehicles outside, and the sun has been up for more than an hour; looks like another REALLY cold day ahead. I guess I won't be riding my scoot again today.

RT Cunningham on January 28th, 2007 at 12:29 am (Reply)

Heh, I don't know about the butter, but I have pan de sol almost every day. I don't go to the bakery, it's delivered.
I'll send you a reply by email and give you more detail.