Together Forever

My Mom and Dad met senior year in High School.  She didn't really like him very much at first, but this did not stop my Dad from trying to be with her. My Dad had asked my Mom, Dana, to the prom and during those times your parents had to approve of your date so my mom told my dad that her parents would like him to come along with them to their house in the Poconos for the weekend.

This morning I just called her up on the phone with new details on school and boys.

I told her about this boy Jake who I met once this summer. 

He has been confessing how much he likes me over the phone. Unfortunately for him, I'm at a loss of words because we only met once and how can he be so interested, I can't reciprocate those feelings. He talks to me everyday or try's to. I respond when I can, I think he's very funny but Im still confused as to how he could like me so much when he really doesn't know me. She reminded me how she did not like my Dad at first either and thought he was annoying for consistently reaching out. She convinced me this morning to give him a chance.

Now my parents have been together since high school and I am absolutely amazed at how much they have been through and have stayed together. I feel like maybe a lot of people say this but at the same time there are so many couples who are married but dont sleep in the same bed, unhappily married, divorced, separated. Its beautiful to have parents truly in love, and they are exactly that. 

I asked my mom on the phone this morning, is it weird that I am single? Why can't I like any of the boys that like me? She said well I know you very well, you are an independent person, you are not missing anything,  you are confident, you dont need somebody to lean and lift you up everyday.You can look at your friends who have had boyfriends since their high school years, but these are people who felt like they were missing something, or were insecure. She said you will find someone who is just as whole as you are. 

I wonder how the stayed together all this time. I know my parents really have been through the worst, I mean think of the worst and its happened seriously. I shouldn't even know the details about their relationship but I do and its wild to me how they worked through it. Maybe it was because they have not known anything different but themselves since high school. They have experienced more than half their lives together rather apart.