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Because that’s how it had always been between us.
Married life for us really was all about those little things adding up. It didn’t matter to me that there was a large part of our lives that had fallen into a bit of a routine. There were things I took care of every week, and there were things he took care of every week.
I never had to worry about taking out the trash, and Johnny knew he’d always have clean clothes. We then came together and both chipped in on other things, such as cooking. Some days, he did it. Other days, I did.
But it wasn’t just household chores or lovemaking where Johnny and I came together as the best versions of our married selves.
We did it during game night with our friends, too.
And in a bit of a twist on the traditional game night, Johnny and I, along with our friends, had decided on a tournament of sorts. Tonight, it was Tetris.
Yep.
We decided to throw it back to an old school favorite and were playing video games with our friends. We’d split ourselves up into teams. Johnny and me, Zac and Talia, Gage and Saylor, Colt and Thea, and Simon and Margot.
I’d just been battling Margot and completely crushed her when Saylor asked her question. I could only assume what she was referring to, and decided it was best to ask for clarification. “What?”
Saylor didn’t hesitate. “You and Johnny,” she clarified. “Is there anything the two of you don’t do well?”
There wasn’t any malice in her voice. Her tone was lighthearted and fun. She was simply asking a genuine question.
My eyes went to Johnny’s as I moved in his direction, and I found they were shining as he looked at me with a proud smile on his face. When I curled up in his lap, I said, “I don’t know what you mean.”
“Oh, don’t give us that,” Thea declared. “You know exactly what she means.”
Talia chimed in next. “Everything about you two is like the gold standard when it comes to relationships.”
“What? No,” I replied.
Nodding her head, Margot insisted, “Yes, you are.”
I looked at Johnny and saw nothing but amusement on his face. He thought this was funny, and I was trying to figure out where our friends were getting this. It wasn’t lost on me that it was just the women who were making the claims, either.
Shaking my head, I reasoned, “Johnny and I have been together the longest. That’s probably why you’re all saying this.”
They all shook their heads, but it was Margot who spoke. “Simon and I were just talking about this the other day,” she revealed. “We were having dinner, just chatting about our days, and I was telling him about one of the women I work with. She was venting at work about some things going on in her marriage, and she’s struggling with what to do. She got together with her husband maybe a year before you and Johnny met each other. Simon had said that maybe it was just that they’d been together for so long that they’d hit a rough patch, and I brought up the two of you.”
“Yep, I’ve seen it with a couple of the women I work with,” Talia added. “It kind of makes me nervous about getting married, because it seems the people who are happiest at my job are the ones who are single or just dating. The married ones are the least happy. Not all of them, but most of them. And it’s not just the women.”
This news made me sad.
I couldn’t imagine not being happy in my relationship with Johnny.
“It’s the opposite,” Johnny said.
All the eyes in the room went to him.
“What’s the opposite?” Zac asked him.
Since Zac and Talia were the newest couple in the group, I loved that he was the one asking the question. I wanted him and Talia to be happy, and if he was eager to hear whatever Johnny had to say, I took that to mean good things.
“I can’t speak for anyone else’s relationship, but I think married life is even better than dating life,” my husband shared.
I nodded my agreement. “It’s the same for me.”
Thea, who was curled up beside her husband of just three months, said, “We’re in the honeymoon phase now, and I couldn’t imagine my life without Colt, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t look at the two of you as role models for marriage. I think if we can be half as happy in our marriage as you two seem to be in yours, we’ll be alright.”
My heart warmed.
