Happily Ever After.........pssshh yeah right! Or can it be???

In my Marriage and Family class, our main project is the construction of a genogram that encompasses at least 3 generations of our family.  Well......I'm finding that my family is prrrrretttttttyyy boring.  But, I guess I should be appreciative of that.  My parents just recently celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary.  AND.....both sets of my grandparents have passed the 50 year mark.

Aren't all relationships supposed to be "Happily Ever After"?  That's what we're made to believe as young girls.  Some believe that 'true' love doesn't exist, I on the other hand, believe differently.  I still love princesses and princes falling in love and being happily ever after as much as I did as a little girl.  I love everything about a fairy tale, as I'm sure Josh would tell you.  In all seriousness though, I do believe that we can have our own happily ever after's in REAL LIFE! I've experienced my parent's happily ever after, and my grandparents' happily ever after.  I mean, I'm sure there were some bumps along with way to 50 years.  Everything can't happen like to storybooks tell us they do.

I feel like I'm one of the fortunate ones, to have my parents still married.......but they're happily married, so I feel even more blessed.  No violence, abuse, cohabitation, separation, or divorce in my family (with the exception of one aunt, who now has a wonderful husband).  My genogram will be filled with solid lines, not broken ones.  It may be bore my teacher to death, but I have my family intact. And, that's all that matters to me!