Text Messages

Being married sometimes is a funny thing. While you are dating you may wake up to text messages that say something like, “Good morning beautiful, I hope you slept well. Have a great day today and I can’t wait to see you later! I love you!” Which of course are great ways to start your day.

However, when you are married you are more likely to wake up to a text message like this: “I need more deodorant, lol. Good morning bug.” A little less mushy and a little more needs driven.

Then there comes the response. To the first hypothetical text while you are dating, you may respond with something like this: “Good morning to you too love! I slept great and hope you did too. I love you bunches and can’t wait to see you!” Equally adorable and sweet.

To the married text message, you will probably respond like this: “I need there to not be giant spiders in our apartment lol. What kind do you want?”

It’s a funny shift once you get married isn’t it? You may be wondering why on Earth I am writing this. Well, the reason I am writing about this is because that is exactly the message I woke up to this morning.

When we were dating, Josh and I would send those long and sweet good morning text messages to each other. Each day we would try to outdo the last. It was a mini competition between one another to be more adorable each morning.

Now that we are married, things are clearly different. But different in a great way. As I read the text message Josh sent me this morning, I couldn’t help but smile. The two of us may no longer be in that cutesy “good morning text” phase, but we are in the phase of actually doing life together. He depends on me and I depend on him.

Yes, it may be silly that a simple text asking for deodorant opened up this train of thought, but it’s true. As much as I enjoyed the cute things that came with dating, I would never want to get them back in exchange for where we are now.

**Disclaimer- If you are worried about completely losing the cutesy part of your relationship with marriage, don’t! I still get cute messages, they are just not the same as when we were dating.