Your dad is usually the first male role you are close to in your life. I was lucky to have such an amazing man with a positive role as my father figure. My dad has been setting the bar high since day one and formed my expectations on how a man should treat me. My dad has shown me how a man should love his wife and children, how to live each day happily, and how to make sure family is first.

I want to marry a man that looks at me how my dad looks at my mother. He continues loving the way his parents taught him. Through hardships, difficult work schedules, and anything else he and my mom have overcome, they work as one team and that is something I so greatly desire.

To have a marriage like theirs and my grandparent’s marriages before them would lead me to start the steps to a happy life and happy marriage.

My dad has shown how to have a love without end, a heart with no limits and looks at my mom like she is the only woman in the world. He spoils her and she spoils him right back. However, what I love most about their marriage is it isn’t the materialistic items that are used to spoil, but they always know when something sweet is necessary or they just need a shoulder massage.

That’s what I desire, is being loved so wholly that my mood can be fixed with just the love from my husband.

I want to marry someone like my father. I want to marry someone with such a large heart that I can’t bear to understand how full it is. I want to marry someone who will love my kids and desires to give them the world. I want a love like a country song because every time I hear one I think of my parents.

It’s a few days late but Happy Anniversary to my loving parents. Thank you for being the best role models for what a marriage looks like that I could ask for.