We were married for nearly 50 years and my husband died just before our Golden Wedding anniversary. We loved each other so very much and yes, we did have arguments mostly about him not doing a job which needed doing. He would always say, yes, I will do it in a minute but then never did so I found a way of getting jobs done when I wanted them doing, I would get out the hammer and nails and whatever else was needed to do the job and when he saw me marching through the room with the tools he would jump up and say, okay you win I will do it now.
I remember my husband saying, just before he died, that when he got to heaven he would tell St. Peter at the pearly gates, not to let me in when it was my turn to go to heaven and to send me in the opposite direction to where he was. I asked my husband why and he said because I would turn up with a list of jobs that needed doing.
We had the most fantastic marriage and after all these years alone, I still cry for what was.
