Barbara Hart Radisavljevic
My husband is the best part of my life. We have been married since June 20, 1964. We know each other pretty well now. I have learned what a good man he really is. He loves God and he loves me. He has also done a good job of providing for us over these fifty-plus years. I love him more with each passing year together.
When I uploaded this photo from my camera, I was taken by surprise. Though I see this man every day, I have somehow missed the signs that like me, he’s getting older. I think we see selectively. I see the handsome man who stands beside me in our wedding pictures. The camera is more objective, just as it is with me. That’s why I don’t like taking selfies or making videos where I just talk to the camera.
Every day that we both get up in the morning I give thanks. I realize all too well that a morning is closer than I’d like it to be when that won’t happen and maybe one of us won’t be able to get up.
That’s one reason I don’t want to take this wonderful man — the one who did the shopping for me tonight when I was too tired and busy to go — for granted. We have learned to help each other with things we didn’t use to need help with. We wonder how we will cut our toenails or get lotion on our backs without each other. Neither of us wants to outlive the other. And neither of us has much to say about who will go first.
I hope we will continue our journey through life together for many more years. Meanwhile, we live in the now and trust God to care for us in the future as he has in the past. For more on our marriage see People Who Make Me Happy.
Great that you have found each other.
I agree. I hope God gives us a few more years together.
So glad you found each other.
We met on Halloween in 1963 at a dorm dinner party in our dorm at UCLA.
A lot more years together, I would say.
“Life is fine when you’re young and you’re having fun, But who’s going to have your back when it’s all done?” Believe it or not, those are song lyrics by a popular singer called Shaggy. I also heard Snoop Dogg say old people inspired him and that he wanted to be like them. With so many couples who get divorced after just a few years of marriage, one of the most beautiful things in life that they will likely never experience is the joyful blessing of growing old TOGETHER! There was a couple at a congregation where I used to worship and they were either in their 80s or 90s and he always used to refer to his wife as “this pretty lady”. You and your husband are blessed. Congrats on another anniversary!
Thank you. My husband still tells everyone I’m his bride of 54 years. I do realize that what we have is special and rare today.
Great to hear that, I really think this is very wonderful! Yes, as time goes by Im afraid my man will go too, but take one day at a time. As we get older we need to give thanks more.
You’ve got that right. Every night I pray we both will wake up the next morning. It would be ideal if couples could die at the same time, but we don’t get a choice about that.
Barb, he does look a bit different from when I last saw him. Probably, so do you and I. Tomorrow will have been our 49th had my late “best part of my life” not passed.
It has been a few years since we’ve seen each other. I’m sorry you never got to celebrate your 50th. My mom always felt cheated that she never got her golden anniversary party. But nobody expected Dad to get cancer and die when he was 70 — five years short of their 50th.
Your mom did get cheated, I think.
Thank you. I do hope we have more years together. Both our mothers died at 89, but our fathers died younger — mine at 70 and his sometime in his 80’s.
Good for both of you. So glad you found each other. Happiness for 54 years is hard to come by these days.
I can’t honestly say that there weren’t a few large bumps in the road, but commitment and the grace of God got us through them.
It is rare to hear these days, so good for you as I said.
You’ve doubled ours (we just celebrated 27). 54 is amazing. Thanks for sharing your other half~
I’ll bet we’ve lived a bit longer than you, too. I’m thankful we were able to have these years together.
I remember my grandparents celebrating their 60th (the year before my wife and I got married). My parents made it 58 years (before my father passed). Congrats!
Doc, I hope we make it at least another four years.
I wish you the health and happiness of those 4 and many more beyond that!
How lovely to read of your 54th anniversary. Congratulations! His happy smile would make it easy to “see selectively”! :- )
He laughs a lot, too. He’s not happy until he can get me to laugh in the morning. I’m usually pretty grumpy when I first wake up.
That’s great stuff! :- ) My husband is also the cheerful morning person and a big one for jokes. He tells friends that sometimes he wakes up grumpy and sometimes he lets me sleep. :- ) On the other hand, I sometimes have to put grumpy to bed early at night while I am quite cheerful. But seriously, it is God’s grace that overrules all our failures. We celebrate our 45th soon. I married an older man. He was 18, I was 17. :- ) And again, we do thank God for His grace throughout life.
You will be amazed at how fast those five more years will go by. I hope you both get there.
This is was a very pretty love declaration 🙂 Wish you both many more years together.
Somehow my original answer to you landed at the top instead of where it should have. Sorry.