Memorable moments with your spouse

  • Thread starter Thread starter Reuben_J
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
R

Reuben_J

Guest
For those married or had been married and are not too shy.

A funny moment, touching moment, tender moment, meaningful moment or memorable moment that you may want to share.

God bless.
 
We met in college, an unlikely couple we might be but when my eyes were set on her, she was almost like an angel.

She was a non-Catholic while I was cradle Catholic. My upbringing as a very intense Catholic was to blame. To me, practicing the faith was a belief as well a culture. The former I often floundered but the latter was part of my blood stream.

Thus on Sundays, while others enjoyed themselves in the beaches or shopping malls, I was always at the mass. Inevitably, my wife (then girlfriend) followed me to the mass.

It was completely alien to her. I told her just to follow what I did except for the Communion.

The first thing I taught her was to make the Sign of the Cross. So showing it with my hand, I said, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”

She got the sequence both wrong – the hand movement and the wording. And she let off a diffident giggle. So I took her hand and repeat the whole thing, saying and moving it on her forehead, heart and both shoulders.

I could not imagine how it is so difficult to make the sign of the cross.

When we went to the church, she did dip her fingers into the holy water, and from the corner of my eyes, her Sign of the Cross was so small and she seemed to just incoherently moved her hand doing it wrongly.

It was her first time into a Catholic church. Always remember that.
 
My strongest memory is not terribly romantic but I thought of my husband as superman in the moment. We were at the beach with the kids about 20 years ago and 2 of my boys aged about 5 and 7 at the time suddenly got caught in a powerful rip. The lifeguards saw and were on their feet but my husband tore down to the water like a speeding bullet, swam out to them and got them both under each arm and somehow swam against the current back to the shallow. He impressed the lifeguards and was hero of the moment. A great moment of courage I’ll never forget.
 
Beautiful. Can identify with that. The strength and the courage of a father in a given situation when his family is in danger.

Quite a common occurances in the beach, which can claim lives.
 
After the birth on my son roughly 7 months my wife fell ill with a heart condition which went undiagnosed. It was discovered when she had to be admitted to hospital as she was unable to breath. It transpired she had developed cardiomyopothy. She was given 24hrs to live. She thankfully pulled through. After this we were advised that baring children would not be an option due to the damaged to her heart. She became pregnant round 2 years later and the cardiologist gave her a 50/50 chance of surviving if she chose to keep the baby. She made it to 32.5 weeks when they decided to do an elective C section as her heart was struggling to cope. My daughter was born then and once she had been delivered my wife’s heart practically went back to what is normal for her. Quite scary times but looking back.
 
Very touching. By you/your wife faithfulness to keep the baby, God must have blessed you both that you’d have the baby and her health condition was restored.

God bless.
 
So many moments over 32 years of marriage, but 2 stand out significantly. The night we lost our first pregnancy in early 1997, and then the subsequent birth of our daughter in December of 1997. The next great moment will undoubtedly be our daughters’ college graduation in a couple of years and then when (if) she marries…

Lots of wonderful little moments in between of course!
 
Two years ago, my husband had been very ill for a long time. Doctors were no help, kept “shotgunning” ideas while he got worse.

I knew he was going to die. He loves Star Wars, so, I sat on the sofa with him and watched Star Wars. I held his hand and held that memory because I knew he would not be there the next day.

Next morning, he went for another test, was found to have no measurable heart function, they did not know how he had walked in under his own steam, let alone was alive.

After a long hospital stay, medical miracles and an ICD, he is still here and still annoying me with Star Wars <3
 
Last edited:
Just this past week. My husband and I have been married 30 years. He came home from work and asked If I wanted to go out and get some lunch. I have had a couple of losses recently, and it can get me down. I am agnostic,; he is atheist. We are sitting there having lunch and I say something along the lines of wondering what really does happen after we die. I am a pretty optimistic person, by nature, but I still am always questioning. I said something along the lines of how terrible life is if you are born, live with all the hardships, and then just croak at the end. And for what? Well I think I really caught him off guard because he is the one who believes when you die, you just die. And he is perfectly OK with it. LOL. Usually I am the one always saying there is something bigger than us and we just don’t understand it. Anyhow, he reaches across the table and takes my hand and says, “You know, we have a great life. We have a decent house, a beautiful child, good jobs, good medical care when we need it, food on the table. And the best part is I have you. Things are going to be just fine, regardless of what happens when we die.” He completely washed away all my worries for that moment. I don’t know what I would do without him. So blessed to have him in my life, even 30 years later.

Thanks to OP for starting this thread. Sometimes it is easy to let these moments pass and not really reflect on them. We should reflect more often.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top