OK, so this is my first ever blog. Welcome. I'm writing a blog about how to be married, but before I start in earnest I ought to set out a caveat. I am not going to tell you how to be married. In fact, I wouldn't say I'm particularly good at it myself. But I am forever learning how to be... and thought you might like to share in my journey and hopefully identify with some of the difficulties I have with being 'that word'.
So, I should tell you a few things first. I've been married for almost five years, but living as a partner to my husband (always have a problem with that word too) for coming on to twelve years now. We have two children together, two girls who are nine and five. I also have two step-daughters who I have known since they were three and five. They are now sixteen and eighteen. They lived half the time with us for many years, until the eldest went off to university last September. We now see very little of her, but her sister still stays regularly.
Our relationship, that is, my husbands and mine, began with conflict. Not only conflict from relationships with his ex-wife and children, but also a previous relationship that I was still very much embroiled in. In fact, my now husband and I broke up for some time as I ran back to my previous partner, who was somewhat younger and had no children or old wives. But that ship had already sailed and my husband and I found one another again and moved in together within the year.
So that is the not wholly harmonious background to this marriage.
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