Love Hurts

Well, it only took 1 month - 26 days - 23 hours and 10 minutes before Jennifer and I had our first fight. I'm not blaming her for the fight, and I'm not acting as the innocent bystander either. Pointing fingers is a game I don't like to play. But today I found out that you don't have to use JUST your pointer finger to get your point across.

Life takes you in odd directions at different points in your life. Whether that is going to college in Alabama or deciding whether to play Madden or Halo before the Eagles game, life was only about me, myself, and I until marriage. I didn't have to consider someone else in every decision I made. Suddenly my taco, underwear, and Sopranos night turned into spooning on the couch during American Idol. Taking 4 Tylenol PMs and falling asleep at my computer screen while IMing random friends turned into pulling the bed back at 10:00pm every night after letting the dogs out. Things changed.

But all of the changes didn't matter. I was on cloud nine and loving every minute of it.

So of course, just as soon as we got married, my cloud nine turned into a tsunami. And the storm brought me back down to reality. Sure I need to do what is best for me. But I also need to consider the wants and needs of my wife. Because as she put it "we are team D'Amico."


Maybe I will look back at our fight and regret things that I said, or things that I did. Shoot, who doesn't have any regrets hidden in their closet? I regret not telling my grandmother I love her before she passed away. I regret losing touch with some of my closest friends. I regret breaking up with an ex girlfriend on the same day her grandmother died. But one thing I will never regret is marrying Jennifer. She is my heart, my soul, my best friend, and my everything. Even if love hurts, I know Jennifer will make me feel better. Even if that does include the middle finger sometimes :)