The Garden Wedding

Honestly, I didn’t think that getting married would make me feel any different regarding my relationship with my wife. After all, we have been together for so long (since 1999 when we met and got together in the first year of junior college) and know each other so well. And my wife didn’t think it’ll be any different as well.

Guess what, we were both wrong! There’s just something that marriage does to you that makes the relationship very different. Even for us who have been together so long, marriage just adds on another level of commitment and responsibility (at least for me). Maybe it’s because you no longer have a girlfriend/fiancee but rather, you have a wife whom you vowed to love and care for in sickness and in health.

And I also think that somehow, marriage has kind of made us become more mature in the relationship. Not that we weren’t mature to begin with, but I think we are letting go of many of the smaller things that we would usually get uptight easily previously. It is indeed an interesting experience.

The other thing about getting married is that it feels odd to have to start calling your in laws Dad and Mum instead of Uncle and Auntie. It’s not easy to break the 8 year habit, much less to get comfortable about it. I guess that will take a while to get used to.

Now we are back to the mundane world of work and school. And there’s still the customary ceremony and house application to think about. Reality still bites.