We met working at summer camp as teenagers and celebrated 29 years of marriage last April. We survived a lot together before we married. He was in the Navy while I went to college; he was stationed on the East coast while I was on the West coast for 2 years; he briefly dated someone else while I was oblivious to the notion that two of the guys around me were crazy about me; he was on submarines and we couldn't communicate for 3 months at a time; I was here and had to deal with his alcoholic family... Never have two people been so happy to marry and start their lives together as we were on our wedding day. My mom told me that she had never seen someone so sure of anything as I was of getting married.