17 Years

Posted on June 17, 2012    Posted by      68 Comments

Seventeen years ago today, Krissy and I got married. I love that we are still married, and I love that I love her more today than when I married her. And I love that she feels the same way.

If you want to give us an anniversary present, here’s all you have to do: Tell the person you love and who loves you how much, in fact, you love them. It’s always a good thing to let them know that, and to remind them of how happy you are that you share each other’s lives. At the very least, it’s worked for us, for seventeen years (and counting).

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68 Comments on “17 Years”

  2. Congratulations Krissy and John! Here’s to 17 more, at least!

    Coincidentally, today is also my birthday. It was a bit more than 17 years ago, though. A bit. XD

  3. Happy Anniversary. My husband and I will be celebrating our 18th anniversary in September so we’ve been married just a bit longer than you. It took us a long time to decide each other was the right one but like you, I love him more than I did when we got married. And we do tell each other “Love You” every morning when he drops me off at work and every night before we go to sleep.

  5. Hubby and I just celebrated seven years, back in March. As it turns out, we hung out with the same crowd in college. He remembers me from back then, but I don’t remember him (I got my BA in ’95, so about the same time you and Krissy got married). Match.com hooked us up in late ’03, and we got married in ’05, when we were in our thirties. I like to tease him about why he never indicated interest towards me back in our college days. He tells me “I wouldn’t have been ready, back then.” I’m glad we finally reconnected, and I haven’t regretted a moment since. I hope you and Krissy have many more happy years ahead of you.

    :-)

  6. Congratulations! We just passed 40 years and I have figured that the most important part of a marriage is having the same sense of humor and not taking yourself too seriously. If I’m right (and I think I am!) then you and Krissie have an ever greater world of fun ahead of you!! Have a happy!

  7. Tolerent wives indeed. I’m always saying, “I know, I am a big goof” She says, ” Yes, but you’re MY goof”
    32 years in August for us and she still laughs when I make bad puns. Priceless, that.
    Congrats to both of you.

  9. Congratulations… we are right behind you at 14 years and I have nothing but gratitude for the man who I am tolerant of, and who tolerates me. I’m also grateful to have found the man who supports my dreams and works with me to make them come true.

    It’s good to have a partner in all things.

  20. Congratulations! May you have many more happy, healthy and fun-filled years together!

    And I just sent a message to my husband telling him how much I love him too. :)

  22. Before I read this, I had already told Paul this morning that I love him super huge oogie bunches. So, there you go. Happy anniversary!

  23. Contratulations, you two lovebirds. We celebrated our 14th legal anniversary about a month ago; we’ve been together for 38 years. I’ve seen the look on Krissy’s face so many times on Marti’s. We are indeed loved.

  24. Congratulations and best wishes for many more happy years together! am envious.

  26. Congratulations! And Happy Father’s Day! I hope you’re having a great one today, and I love, love, LOVE that photo! :)

  28. What a great idea for an anniversary gift. I just told my wife of 30 years that I had to give her a kiss because it was a gift to this science fiction guy I know. She just smiled and said, “Sure”. Ya got a love them….

  29. pppfffffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttttttt – newlyweds! we just celebrated our 38th on Friday. We are very lucky as it is better now that it has ever been & it was never bad. Congrats to you & the woman foolish enough to marry you!

  30. Congratulations. You guys are adorable. We’ll be having our 32nd this December. I wish you every happiness!

  31. . . . dude. I have a photo from my wedding that almost exactly replicates that pose. My husband looming over me, with his hands like that, trying to eat my brains, and me giving him more or less that same look.

    Congratulations to you two, and I hope you’re as happy together as my husband and I are!

  33. Happy Anniversary! Okay, I will be sure to remind my husband how much I still love him…and tolerate him. He tolerates me too, which I think is one of the secrets to a lasting marriage.

  34. Happy Anniversary! (Currently unpartnered, so can’t really give you a present, but have a happy day anyway!)

  35. Awwww…. how sweet! I love what you asked for as an anniversary present too: most authors who ask for a gift seem to say ‘buy me a present: buy my book!’ You’ve effectively asked for world peace. :)

    I’ve been married for 21 years next month to Dark Matter’s minion. He’s loving and giving. He works: I’m disabled and unemployed and extremely overqualified for any job I’m likely to be offered as a disabled person, so he works, supports me financially and encourages me in continuing with Dark Matter even though I keep questioning whether I’m actually contributing something to the community or am I actually duplicating other people’s efforts. He’s called the ‘minion’, a title he likes: this started when I was doing 95% (at least) of Dark Matter, we’d go to events and he’d fetch me coffee and carry the extra bag and just tag along, interested in what I was doing and who I was meeting, keeping me safe from accidents and pointing out people we know or good photo opportunities (it’s bizarre: I’m vision impaired and I do the photography for Dark Matter :) He’s a highly respected IT consultant at work, but he’s happy to be the minion for Dark Matter. He’s always proof read Dark Matter too – proofreading being one of the most boring jobs on the face of this earth in my opinion – and if there are errors in DMF, it’s because I haven’t given him enough time to proof read as carefully as he wants. About a year ago he promised me a website as well, even though he’s a database developer by profession and has never touched anything webby in his life other than a search engine; when web design is required at work he works with web design specialists. With all the crap life threw at us last year it took a while, but about 7 weeks ago we launched the website. We’ve had lots of feedback as to why it needs to be changed (he didn’t realise WordPress did pages as well as blogs, plus WP has grown past a lot of the negative feedback he found when he researched websites) and now he’s going to rebuild the site using only WordPress so we get rid of the dual scroll bars and generally improve the layout/prevent orphaning of pages etc. He’s the wind beneath my wings, leader of my cheer squad (which is very very small), my chauffeur (I can’t drive due to my disability), my support at events, Dark Matter’s webmaster (until he’s rebuilt the site then he promises to train me so I can take over), my IT support, etcetera, all while holding down a full-time job and looking for another job because he’s a contractor with a contract end in sight.

  36. To paraphrase one of the great poets and bards of our modern world: “Since you like it, bet you’re glad you put a ring on it. Since you like it, bet you’re glad you put a ring on it.”

    My wife and I are only at thirteen years, but we’ve been together for seventeen. Mazal tov.

  37. Congrats! I will indeed go off and hug my spouse of 20 months! (At this point the numbers sound more impressive if you count months.)

  39. Happy anniversary!

    John, since I met you at the Cleveland Blogger Bash in 2k-something, I got married to a long-time friend. I’d never been married before and had no idea marriage would be so fun and sweet!! I’m looking forward to our 17th in, like, 9 more years.

    Congrats to you!

  42. Happy anniversary! And happy Father’s Day. I suspect Tolerant Daughter is also Tolerant.
    (I just bellowed at my husband, “John Scalzi says to tell you I love you!” and he answered, “Tell John Scalzi that I love you, too. You, I mean, not him. Not that I don’t love Scalzi, but I don’t love him like that.”)

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  45. Holy cow! 17 years! We should all be so lucky as to find the one we love even more, 17 years on. Congratulations!

    I was at that (fantastic) wedding, and it sure doesn’t seem like it was 17 years ago. Time flies… Happy anniversary to you both.

  47. At first glance this looked like a big idea for a particularly bad zombie novel. But really, be happy!

  48. Dave and I will be celebrating our 10th next month, although we’ve been together 19 years, and yes, TOLERANT HUSBAND IS TOLERANT. Hmmm. Nice picture!!! (Hee Hee)

  50. She’s a lucky gal. Lucky to have that much patience! >;-)

    Seriously, congratulations to both of you.

  51. Congratulations! My oldest son and his wife just celebrated 19 years and she posted that she hoped for 119 more together so I feel you are both doing something very right. Hope it was a grand day.

  53. I met my wife a week before I went off to the Southeast Asian unpleasantness in 1967. Proposed a week getting back in one piece because i was being stationed across the country and pre-Web, cheap air, cell phones, and other such ways to relate from long distance effectively we figured we were unlikely to get to know each other any better. A genuine Leap of Faith. 43 years later she still takes my breath away. And tolerance? She puts up with soooooo much..

  59. Congrats to both you, and the kid and assorted fluffy friends you’ve garnered along your journey. May you have a long and variegated way before you.

  60. We spent the day at the wedding of a dear friend. May their love, and yours, long remain a blessing for the world.

  61. Happy anniversary (ok, a bit late, but I was computerless for a while)!
    In your honor I gave my wonderful hubby a hug and told him that I loved him and was glad that we were married. I take it as a good thing that he hugged me back and said something similar rather than looking at me and yelling, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?!”

  62. 1. Happy anniversary!
    2. That picture just *BEGS* for shooping. I’d go with an Angel/Devil scheme, but even just a simple slice of bacon taped to your jacket would be worthwhile.

  64. Not having a boyfriend or anything like that, I chose to tell my family and friends how much they mean to me. That might not be exactly what you had in mind, but it’s my version of it.

  68. hello everyone, i want to use this great means to thank Dr aluta the mouth peace of the greatest temple of our time the traditionalspelltemple for bringing my wife and children back to me after 5years of divorce . i was really downcast and every hard earn money and property i have long worked for went down the drain because of the divorce problems.i told a friend of my this my problem and he told me to contact dr aluta for help. i do not believe in this, but i have to try my best it. i contacted him and he told me thing i have to do, and also he cast a spell of return back of love for me.after 1 week my divorce wife who never called me for 5 years called me on that day and ask me that we should see, it was like a dream to me, we meet and she told me that she still love me and want us to come back together again. and also i should forgive her for all she had done to me. it was the love spell i cast on her that make her come back to me, and also my family are now back to me finally and for ever. i want you to contact Dr aluta for the return of your love or ex boyfriend, girlfriend husband or wife back and he will bring them back to you. his email address is traditionalspellcaster@yahoo.com

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