Top 10 Reasons I Love Being Married to Rob

To my Anniversary post I've received responses like, "COULD you come up with a Top 10 list?"  This is my response to that response:

Before Rob and I were married, I was convinced that I didn't deserve him.  (I still think that I'm lucky to be married to him, but that's different.)  Rob was in many ways more than I was.  More mature.  More stable and steady.  More conservative.  More good looking.  Just more.

At one point, before we were engaged, we had a conversation where I made some sort of analogy about a train.  It wasn't a good analogy, cause I'm really bad at them, but still.  I told Rob that I felt like he was a train ready to leave the station, and I really wanted to be on that train, but I wasn't sure I'd make it on time.  (You're amazing.  I'm unworthy.)  He responded with, "Well, get on board."  Oh.

I think it was later in this same conversation, I told him that marrying him would be a dream come true.  His response startled me.  "I'm not here to make your dreams come true."  Rob had a whole bunch of girls who adored him and wanted him to make their dreams come true.  I'm pretty sure it was common for him to feel like the hero, the savior, the champion.  But it wasn't common for me to feel like the maiden in distress.  I didn't need "saving," I just thought Rob was above me.

Fast forward to married life.  I no longer think that Rob is above me, or like I don't deserve him.  Rob is a wonderfully good man, but he has faults, which is something I was unaware of 10 years ago.  I have faults, he has faults; turns out we were equals in that regard all along.

Sometimes, we'll be laying in bed, just talking about nothing, and I'll say, "Remember when you told me that you weren't here to make my dreams come true?"
Invariably he'll respond, "I said that?"
I'll tell him, again, about the conversation.  About how it shocked me, but about how I actually liked it.  Rob wasn't here to save someone.  He was here to find an equal and share a good life with that equal.
Then he'll hug me tight and say, "Now I'm here to make your dreams come true."

And that pretty much sums up my Top 10 Reasons I Love Being Married to Rob.