Tales of a New Marriage

March 3, 2021

Grace Bianco here. I have been married for fifty-two days.

Picking up where I left off yesterday :

My heart dropped. I began to tear up.

“0 service…” I repeated in my head.

My radiation protection technician husband who works 12 hour nights and I get only two hours with during the day… just told me that he was switched positions where he wouldn’t be able to text all night.

I was frustrated with our situation again. Just when I thought I got a grip on this crazy life, something happens that makes it all harder.

My husband came into the room around 7am to find my face covered in tears.

“Are you okay?”

“No,” I replied, my voice still managing to crack on one word.

He got into bed and pulled me in. I expressed that I had to be able to talk to him like I always have been able to when he would work. It was hard enough to hardly see each other. He assured me that he would find a way, even if it meant just emailing back and forth.

I fell back asleep comforted by my husband being with me and the reassurance that we would still be able to talk during the late hours of the night.

When I woke up, I was back to being happy. My husband had the night off, and I would have him all to myself.

I got ready for the day, even putting on makeup.

I went to the library to post my daily blog.

I had woken up pretty late. So, I didn’t stay out too long. I am always worried that I will miss a minute of my husband being awake. Every minute counts haha.

I read the Bible and my book until he woke up.

He woke up around 3:45pm.

We spent our time talking and laughing. It was as if my moment of being overwhelmed didn’t even happen that morning.

I realize I sound over the top crazy in my blogs when I talk about my husband. I sound obsessed, which that’s not entirely wrong. He’s my best friend. I am crazy about him when we are back home and have other people we could be around too. But he’s literally all I have right now, and so our time together is EVEN more important to me.

We went out to eat. We agreed the food was average, but I was just happy to feel like we were having a normal date night.

We came home and just relaxed together for awhile.

We (well really me) ended the night with watching “The Incredibles”. I was exhausted by 2:30am. My husband got up to leave the room around 3:30, and came back to go to sleep around 5:15.

That was my day… How was yours??