Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Mar 02 - The Married Life

 A friend and ex-colleague, Arky, asked me yesterday over chat, "How's the marriage life going?"

What a great question. With Luis being in the Netherlands and myself being in Indonesia, essentially performing a rather frowned upon Long Distance Marriage, the simple question forced myself to rake the most honest answer I could muster for the time being. My initial response was to write, "What marriage life? We aren't even together." 

But the sassiness didn't sit right as I discovered it to be an inaccurate depiction of the way I feel. Granted it's not ideal to be geographically separated from your significant other, it isn't cultivating distinctively more stress and/or odd feelings than the Long Distance Relationship we had mastered and been so familiar with 7.5 years prior to tying the knot.

That's when I realized marriage is technically a form of relationship. So nothing new, really, just him and me relying on videocalls and instant messages to keep each other updated with our tremendously different lifestyles. We're back to what we know very well, just now with extra bands on our ring fingers.

"It's amazing," so I replied.