MITCH STURGEON
Author and Blogger Living With MS
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I wrote in my book:
During my sophomore year on the high school track team, my future wife stood out among the other freshman runners because of her blazing speed, playful personality, and nice ass.
These were the criteria I used to select my life partner. Brilliant, right?
After one date, Kim decided we would be married. Years passed before I realized the same. This has become a reoccurring theme in our marriage. She almost immediately knows what should happen next, and she nudges me in that direction until I come around.
We married in our early 20s. After trying out Ohio and Vermont, we returned to Maine to start our family. We worked hard and did our best to raise Amy and Zach, but we took some time to have fun along the way. As our children became more independent and our careers successful, we set ourselves up for a comfortable empty nest stage—our just reward.
But life is not a bank account, where good deeds deposited early in life mature into dreams realized later. Life doesn’t owe us anything. Life simply happens, and we adjust accordingly.
I am fortunate to have a spouse, best friend, and now primary caregiver as wonderful as Kim. However, I deserve no credit for this decision made so many years ago. I didn’t choose her because I thought she would make a great life partner. I already told you why I chose her. I just got lucky. Kim has a contagious passion for living and is a wonderful mom. She is thoughtful and caring, sexy and fun-loving, intelligent and determined, optimistic and industrious, loving and patient. She could have done so much better than me, but I’m glad she didn’t. It’s just another example of the charmed life I lead.
I love you Kim. Thanks for all that you do and all that you are.
8 Replies to “How to Select the Ideal Life Partner”
Beautiful. You definitely are the perfect role model couple. So happy for you both in that regard. You are like my parents were. Happy for you both. Love you. Gail & Wayne
Gail, thank you for your kind words! Let me know if you make it to southern Maine sometime.
Great tribute to a lady I admire so much. I’ve seen the “nudge”…it’s more like a shove.
A gentle shove?
The last three paragraphs are almost identical to how I feel about my wife ,and caregiver. I feel blessed and lucky too. She is not my first wife and she’s did not sign to this. We are married 25 years but .M,S changed everything aout seven years ago. Thank goodness for for the time we had before MS. I too feel I picked well and am graceful for now. I’ve enjoyed your book both kindle and audio and given some copies to friends to experience what it feels like to use MS. Thanks again for sharing your experiences and insights.
–Hans Frohlich
Hans, I’m so pleased that you are enjoying my book in a couple of versions. We are indeed fortunate people to have the spouses that we do!
Mitch,
Do you know if Kamikaze Marc ‘s site is down?
His last post was in Oct. and it wouldn’t let me leave a comment.
Just thinking of him and feeling a little worried.
Thanks for any info.
Dee/OH
His site is not down. He’s been fighting a variety of ailments lately, and just hasn’t felt up to blogging. I was able to leave a comment, so that might be some sort of problem internal to your computer. I spoke with him a few weeks ago and he hoped to be getting better soon.
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