Well tonight my Wife and I are going out to celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary.
It has been pretty rough for us lately, a few pretty big arguments and things of that nature. I guess every marriage has those.
Twelve years seems like an eternity, but we are both determined to keep our marriage together and we have a wonderful son who will be 5 this summer.

I did some planning and I set up a dinner reservation for a special anniversary celebration that includes something I hate.... dancing.
Yeah, I can't stand it but she absolutely LOVES it. We took some ballroom dance classes a few years back and we have been practicing all week.
I just want to get out on the dance floor and fake it for a while so she can enjoy herself and hopefully I won't embarass us both too badly.

It will be a fairly expensive night out, at least for me. It is actually a dinner cruise. 3 hours up and down the Potomac River looking at the views, window seats on the boat and a 4 course dinner with a live band and dance floors in every area of the boat. We get a picture taken when we board.
It will be a new thing for me, I have taken her all over the country but never out for dinner and dancing.
I hope I survive... she is a great dancer and I can be really awkward since I don't do it much.

Just wanted to share, for those of you who I consider to be friends.
I hope we celebrate a few more anniversaries together... hopefully every year for the rest of our lives together.
Have a good weekend everyone!
(our anniversary is actually the 3rd... tomorrow, but I don't want to stay out until Midnight on Sunday ;) )

Congrads:cheers: on the anniversary, remember try not to look down at your feet:banana: while danceing.:dance: Don't worry about it your gonna do fine.:dance7: :thumbsup: BTW thanks again for the info I owe ya.

Congratulations! God, I can't even remember where I was 12 years ago! LOL! I think I was in the 3rd grade... Man, that does seem like an eternity!

that does seem like an eternity!

Is that suppose to make him feel good or bad.:eek: :histeric:

Congragulations !
Have many happy anniversaries like this :thumbsup: :bouncy:

Is that suppose to make him feel good or bad.:eek: :histeric:


Oh! Uhh....good!

12 years ago I was... um... let's see, somewhere in my late 20's I think :D

I got my Foxtrot moves down... now a little Waltz practice and a prayer ;)

Ahh, dancing can be a lot of fun especially with the right lady and most especially slow dancing! I remember my first first slow dance with a pretty girl in Jr. High. I can't remember the girl's name to save my life but I sure do remember that dance.

Now after nearly 22 years my wife and I still love to slow dance but we usually make our own music........... :p

Have a good time together tonight. My wife and I celebrated our 7th this year....though we've been together for a total of 13 years. We had also seen our share of arguments recently. These have been worse arguments for some reason, and we never really bring them to an end.

I am not ashamed to admit that my wife and I sought marriage counseling from a professional. He gave us some tools to help understand why we were so very frustrated at each other, and useful tools to help communicate better. After several sessions we are doing better than ever, and have begun to really enjoy each other's company again.

Husbands and wives don't always speak the same languages, it would seem. We both love our child more than anything, but found it necessary to devote more of our attention and time to our own relationship. After all if our relationship dissloved our child would silently suffer more than anyone.

Before I ramble on forever, my point is: remember your marriage and your wife are important. Don't hesitate to find a real fix to the problems you face. I'm not sure my wife and I would have ever worked out our troubles without a professional helping us. Just my .02.

Happy anniversary! :thumbsup:

Every marriage has its ups and downs, trust me, we will be celebrating our 35th this year.
A dinner and dance river cruise is a major plus on the romance meter, anyway congrats and thanks for all of your knowedgable replies

Ewill3rd, here's a start for ya buddy!
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Congrats to Bill and Mrs. Bill!! Hope you have a wonderful anniversary and many, many more.

Ahh, dancing can be a lot of fun especially with the right lady and most especially slow dancing! I remember my first first slow dance with a pretty girl in Jr. High. I can't remember the girl's name to save my life but I sure do remember that dance.Yeah, that's the type of dance where you can never get close enough because something gets in the way...:hotdog:

Congrats on the anniversary. My husband would be rewarded nicely for an evening such as the one you have planned. ie: I wouldn't bitch when he wanted to spend an entire day watching football. Or golf. Or soccer. Or the National Spelling Bee....

Congrats ewill !! :thumbsup:

Ya hopeless romantic, you! Do your best Gene Kelly.

Congrats and I hope you have many, many more!!! Sounds like you have a very nice evening planned.

Congrats bro... Hope you guys had a good one...

Congratulations Bill! 12 yrs. an eternity? He he, your an amature. I have 2 1/2 eternities under my belt, but I have to give my wife credit for that. I hear you loud and clear on that dancing thing man. I'd do the dinner thing, but dancing? Your a better man than I. :thumbsup: Have a great night. :kiss:

Lesley, you had me when you said "My husband would be rewarded nicely for an evening such as the one you have planned":worship:, until you said, "ie: I wouldn't bitch when he wanted to spend an entire day watching football. Or golf. Or soccer".

I forgot what is was like to be romantic or even give a rats ass trying to please your mate. Nevertheless you are on the right track and I wish you all the luck. It takes a big man to do things you dont want to do for love. Trust me, I dont know smack about that. :highfive:

I am morally opposed to dancing -- thats my excuse because I suck at it.

OK Bill...we need an update on "Fred and Ginger" night. :D Hope it went well.

It all went as planned, of course some things happened to make it less than perfect but overall it was really cool.
The boat was nice, the food was good, all the crew were awesome, the dancing.... well, I am no Fred Astair, but I did okay. The dance floor was small and crowded so we couldn't move around much and most of the dancing we know is the around the floor type, with traffic it was impossible. I couldn't get my rhythm and the real issue would have been that everyone out there was doing impromptu stuff and flying around like pinballs.
I really enjoyed the slow dance swaying stuff (this is the only woman who has been able to get me to dance) but she was irritated because we couldn't bust out our foxtrot moves.
She got irritated because they didn't announce our names... but then they did later.... they forgot us along with about 10 other couples.

At any rate, overall it was quite enjoyable and we did get some "snuggle time" at the end of the cruise standing out on the deck.
There were a lot of "young" couples there, like 1-5 years. There was a 13 and a 25 year also.

It is really hard to take her for something like this because she expects perfection and her expectations are always too high. I just roll with it and enjoy it for what it is worth. Therefore I was impressed, and she was slightly disappointed... :D

Today is our actual anniversary and we get to celebrate by me working on the house!
I have to get to it.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone.

This year was kind of wussy compared to years past but the purse strings are tight this year and we are both too busy to take time away for a big trip.

I always try to do something special because it is a very special day for me.
Sometime I'll list the things we did before.

Lesley, you had me when you said "My husband would be rewarded nicely for an evening such as the one you have planned":worship:, until you said, "ie: I wouldn't bitch when he wanted to spend an entire day watching football. Or golf. Or soccer".[/QUOTE]

Just trying to fend off the leg humpers Ranger, but glad you knew the REAL meaning of rewarded. :lildevil:

It has been 365 days since I got "rewarded" ;)
Don't ask! :D

There are two magic words that keep the old lady happy; YES DEAR!

It has been 365 days since I got "rewarded" ;)
Don't ask! :D
Thats when you use one of your life lines, and you phone a friend. :lildevil:

Thats when you use one of your life lines, and you phone a friend. :lildevil:

No that's when you listen to Pink's song "U + Ur Hand". It'll save your marriage.:histeric:

Rather than dancing it's costing me a porcelain tile entryway and hardwood floors. My back and my knees are killing me already.

No that's when you listen to Pink's song "U + Ur Hand". It'll save your marriage.:histeric:
No thats when you call her best friend. She won't tell.

No thats when you call her best friend. She won't tell.
:tisk: :thumbsup: