Ten minutes to write. Less time to read.

This afternoon my son, Keith, and his partner, Chris, marry. They’ve been together fifteen years, so maybe someone might ask, “What will be different?”

I am in a position to answer. Last year, 2010, my partner of fifteen years and I also married. Secretly I wondered what might change. But with fifteen months under our communal belt, I can honestly say that being married is more intimate, gentler, more comforting, and certainly easier if one of us needs medical care. (At our age, this is a likely possibility!)

So what would I wish for Keith and Chris? Just that they experience the deepening of relationship that we did, that they recognize its power, and that they have fifteen plus fifteen plus fifteen years of married bliss together.