
When you get married you're all caught up in the wedding part of things-the ceremony, the dress, the reception, the band. You forget that there is the marriage part. In almost every ceremony the person officiating says, "Do you take this person for... better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health." When you're young you only think that there will be the better, the richer and the health. It's not until the passage of time that you realize that there is worse, poorer and sickness.
In the last 25 years we have experienced all these things in our marriage. When I got married at 21 I didn't know what I didn't know. Now that I'm 47 I still don't know what I don't know, but I know a lot more than I did. The worse, the poorer, and the sickness have definitely made the better, the richer and the health that much more sweet.