Life Climbing

I was having coffee with a dear friend yesterday and he commented on how great my marriage appeared “at least the one you put on public media.”  I told him I wasn’t going to post images and text from the argument we had had the night before.  Our public image is just that, an image, a well-crafted story of what we want you to think our life is like.  I told him we argue because making up is so much fun and that is in fact true.  A great marriage is just a product of hard work, not like roofing a house but like climbing a very tall mountain—you roof a house because it is required, you climb a mountain because you want that experience, Betty and I want to experience what it means to have a great marriage.