Where on Wednesday thirty: The tapestry of Faith and G-dog

Here we are on week 30 of my #whereonwednesday series...A weekly post celebrating the fact that the working week is half way over and the downhill run to the weekend has begun.

Today I sit here in my office thinking about my wife Faith. You see, someone mentioned Valentines Day and whilst I get it, people like to make a big deal of it, both my wife and I do not. You see, every day is Valentines Day in our household.

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I've been together with my wife for 33 years this year, and married for 27 of those years. You can see her pictured here.

It's a long time and whilst some people don't get it and say things like, "don't you get bored with each other," I feel very proud of our relationship and that she has spent those years with me. She is an amazing person and I am honoured to call her wife, best friend, lover and confidant. No, we don't get bored, in fact each years seems better than the last and that's due to the way we apply our design and create ethos to each aspect of life.

In a world that seemingly favours online dating apps I'm also glad that our courtship, the period in which we dated and fell in love, was text message, online app and Facebook free. You see, none of those things existed in 1987 when we met.

Instead we went on dates to the beach, movies, cafés, walks in the park, picnics, the zoo, trips to the Barossa Valley wine region, cruised my car around and any number of other things. We talked when on those dates; Learned about each other, understood who each of us were, and how we felt about each other. It was completely spectacular and I wouldn't change a thing - An amazing and special time of our lives. we have carried that forward throughout our lives and whilst we have had difficult times in life like all people do, we never forget what is important...Each other.

We are just as in love now as we were then, differently, but the same also. We are different people: Older, wiser, more experienced, more pressured and yet less...Better off financially and emotionally different too. There's so many things that make us different from that 17 and-a-half year old country-lad who fell for the tall, blonde 16 year old girl in October 1987...But the feelings endure and for that I am thankful.

Looking back at all the things we've done together, our journey through life, is incredible to do... And you know, I can still recall our first kiss, the scent of her perfume at age 16 (which she still wears sometimes), the way she would tilt her head shyly to one side, look at me through her lashes and the corner of her eyes, that smile...That blue bikini as she exited the water at West Beach a couple weeks after we met...Good times, amazing memories.

The moments we have shared, each fragment, have been woven into the tapestry of our lives and despite bad times, heartache and pain we would not change a thing because those times, and all the amazing ones are what makes our lives so special.

I don't know if a couple that meets today on Tinder will feel the same as we do 33 years after meeting...To be honest I don't really care and nor does it matter...All I know is that tow people's lives shouldn't take place with a computer screen or phone between them. Life, between two people, should be vibrant and full of shared moments; Fragments woven into life's tapestry. However that happens isn't the point...That it happens is.

Happy humpday y'all, Have a great Wednesday.

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