What I Really Know About Marriage
By: Rosemary Wolbert Source: AARP Bulletin Today Date Posted: 2007-06
The AARP Bulletin's "What I Really Know" column comes from our readers. Each month we solicit short personal essays on a selected topic and post some of our favorites in print and online. Below, reader Rosemary Wolbert of Sigel, Penn., shares what she really knows about marriage.
This is what I've learned: Marriage is a fluid thing, much like a dance. It can go from a dreamy waltz to a sensuous salsa to a playful jitterbug. But it's always in rhythm. Each partner listens to the other with every sense. Each feels the beat, senses the direction, takes the lead or follows when needed, helps the other through a misstep.
Even if the dance is something they've done a hundred times before, a change in the music makes the partners shift and adapt to a different beat. They stay in tune with each other, with the music.
My husband and I have a wonderful rhythm. This summer and fall, there are no less than half a dozen weddings on our calendar. All the couples will orchestrate lovely events, and a good time will be had by all.
We will watch them dance, dance with them and wish them all the best.
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