An open letter to our marriage

Dear marriage:

You've been in our life for 4 years today. People always told us before we met you that you were hard to deal with sometimes, required massive amounts of attention and compromise and that you would eliminate any "mystery".These are all true things. What they didn't tell us is that you make our houses or extremely cramped one-bedroom apartments next to the methadone clinic a home. You make sitting on the couch or walking the dog a date night that, incidentally, doesn't cost us exorbitant amounts of money. You make preparing Saturday pizza together the highlight of our week. They didn't say how you create a sometimes supernatural telepathic line between us that often eliminates the need for words or that you make the load of shit that piles up in life lighter by half. And they definitely didn't tell us that you would make us stronger, better people who can hold the other up when they need some help, who celebrate each other's little victories with the same enthusiasm as we do our own, and who try hard everyday to love and not hurt each other to the very best of our abilities. Marriage, you're not always easy, but you're always awesome. So thanks.