My wife was my supervisor (and some say she still is), at my first job. I was working my way through the first year of college. We got along well at work and it never really dawned on me that she wanted to date so a mutual friend, and coworker, fabricated a meeting for couples only knowing I didn't have a serious girlfriend at the time. When I wasn't able to tell him right off who I'd be bringing, he suggested I ask our boss and I was speachless. Well, I asked her and she readily agreed to go. That was the second clue I hadn't picked up on. When we arrived at the "gathering", we were the only ones there! Should've known it was a setup from the start. Anyway, that was 15 years ago, 13 of which were spent married.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.