I’m surrounded by some sort of black hole phenomena, you see if I put something down say a pen or a necklace and look away for a second that thing will disappear. This would be fantastic if I could do it at will, because I could probably make some money off it. Unfortunately as it is it’s just really annoying. A few days after the wedding I lost my wedding necklace, and because I couldn’t remember putting it down it made the feeling that it was never going to be found that much stronger.
I thought maybe I had left it in the cabin in the caravan park, which was worrying because the Wolff’s parents had vacated so there was little chance of getting it back if that was the case. The Wolff rang his parents to check that it hadn’t gotten in to their stuff somehow, it hadn’t.
He consoled me and said he would find it or get me another if he couldn’t. I was a five year old and didn’t want another, it had to be this new but sentimental piece of jewelery that I wore on our wedding day.
So he went through the house, the bags we had used for our swimming gear and our awfully-skanky smelling wheely bin, in case I had somehow thrown it out.
I went to bed disappointed that I had yet again lost something important by just putting it down. Wolff tried to call the caravan park to see if it had turned up there, there was no answer so he promised to go there the next day and check.
I went to bed and he started tidying up in preparation to follow, he came to bed with a big smile and my necklace in hand.
It was down the side of the couch and the first thing his hand touched when he decided to check there.
This long and largely pointless story tells you how I know I married the right man. Someone who will hunt for a small piece of metal, for no reason other than it means something to me. Someone who comforts me when I come home from a long distressing day at work and soothes my ego when I miss out on yet another job that would get me out of where I am now.
Marriage changes nothing and everything, it has definitely opened my eyes to how loved and lucky I am.