Story of a Couple

Well, we've let this slide by the past couple of days. Still healing up from this darn bug we've had. However, we haven't stopped working on our goals. In fact, YO has been hard at work on our goals, whilst I sit by and wait for direction and timing. This project we are working on is great fun for us! We are both looking forward to seeing it through to it's final stage.

I met a man today who lost his wife to cancer about 5 years ago. What a great guy! He had such a wonderful outlook on life. Ten days after he came home from Vietnam, he was in a bar in a small town here in Oregon and this beautiful woman walked in. She was about 130 pounds with long dark wavy hair. He took one look at her and told his friend he was going to marry her. Thirty-six days later, they were married. He said it took some fancy talking and a lot of lies on his part to make it happen. They started a trucking business together, she did the books, he handled the trucking and sales. Their goal was to build a life without worries so they could raise their children (5 of them) in comfort.

When their children were nearly grown, this man (Kurt) bought a brand new fancy semi truck. His wife was ANGRY. He bought it without talking it over with her, and she new it would cut into their lifestyle. Not that they lived a plush life. They had their needs met.

One night, he walked into the house after work and she gave him a kiss and handed him a stack of papers. He said, "what is this?" "Divorce papers" she answered. She was leaving him because he stepped over the line by spending that kind of money, and he wouldn't turn the truck back in. She took her bags and walked out the door as he stood their completely bewildered.

In divorce court, the judge ruled that Kurt could pay $300 a month per child for support. His wife started waving her arm saying "Your Honor! Your Honor!" When he asked her what the problem was, she said "He can't afford to pay that much! I do his books! Now that he's bought that truck, he can't afford anything! That's what this is all about!"

The judge asked Kurt if this were true and Kurt told him yes. The judge then asked Kurt's wife if she loved him. She said yes, with all her heart. He ordered Kurt to get rid of the truck. Kurt agreed, and his wife was home with him again that night.

I laughed the whole way through this man's story. I just thought it was GREAT! And what a way for her to make her point! Stick to our goals! Don't go off on your own little tangent without me!

Kurt said that they retired 5 years before she died of cancer and they were able to travel around in a travel trailer and had the best time together. It was what they had been working toward all along. The children grown and gone, and just the two of them, living their dream. When she died, he went back to work. Lucky for me, because that is how I got to meet him today. He is a janitor at Spirit Mountain Casino and I have to tell you, listening to his stories are better than sitting at a comedy club. He ended the story by telling me that once she was gone, there wasn't anything left for him to do but go back to work and wait out his time to be with her again. I almost cried. And I'm a better person for having met him. I hope I see him again someday.

This is what I want. A relationship that involves two people working together on goals that will further their future. Allow them to have a little fun later in life. I think -- no, I know, that is what we are working toward here. Thank you, Honey... for what you are doing right now. I'm behind you all the way. But... if you buy a semi truck... I'll be handing you papers as well! :)

Thanks for reading - Dawn