I Heart being married

Alright, so the other night I was thinking about those sappy movies that you see on Lifetime, you know the ones where you cry your eyes out because the women is dying of cancer but wants to marry her high school sweetheart, or the one where two people find their long lost loves and find out that they are still in love and want to get married and have four kids together, but one gets hit by a car and dies before all your dreams can come true? (Mom, you know what I am talking about) Well why do they make movies like that? For people like me who are hopeless romantics and can never get enough of that stuff? For people like me who married their best friend and wanted to live happly ever after only to find out that marriage takes a lot of work and is not always roses and champagne? Perhaps.
Let me just say this, I LOVE being married. I LOVE that i married my best friend and that we can hang out together just watching TV and still laugh at our lives. I love that we can share our dreams together, share our lives together and know that we will always be there for each other. On the other side of that, it takes work. The laundry needs to be done, money is always an issue and the dogs need to be taken care of. Those movies forget that life is about compromises and about sacrifices that we make when getting married.
Growing up I always had a dream of living in New York City, or in Los Angelos living my life alone in an apartment, partying with my girlfriends and dating casually for awhile. But the truth is, I wanted that love that was in the movies, I wanted to be swept off my feet and find that long lost love (Without the dying part) I quickly found out that movies are just that, movies and it is hard to find that feeling they have on TV. I may sound bitter, but i was thinking about these movies the other night as I was making dinner, fighting off two over grown dogs and fighting for attention from my husband who finds the computer fascinating and can stay on it for hours on end. Life is tough, tougher then I thought. But at the end of the day, I have someone who loves me and someone who will always be there to take care of me. Who needs roses and champage? Sure it would be nice every once in awhile, but is it real? Can we sustain a relationship on those two things alone? Probably not. So for the time being i have boycotted all lifetime movies and will just focus on reality. Making sure my life is happy, healthy and satisfying and I guess that is all I can ask for.