Comments on: Part 2: a love story

By: my web. « riseypland

my web. « riseypland — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:25:33 +0000

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By: Bunny

Bunny — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:26:11 +0000

He is an incredible man and husband to go with you through all of this. And you are right, the vows mean so much more than we think about when we make them.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:59:40 +0000

Beautiful

By: kalisah

kalisah — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:39:34 +0000

As my sponsor says, “Aren’tcha grateful?” As long as I stay grateful, I can stay sober.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:50:01 +0000

I lurk a lot more than I comment but I just had to say thank you for sharing. It’s funny but I was thinking of you this morning after I’d read your post about your DUI yesterday. And I was thinking of JB and your marriage and how even though I don’t know either of you it was nice to hear about truly a “for better or for worse” marriage – that you two stuck it out and came through on the other side together.

I love your blog and your posts.

All three of you are lucky. And I do believe you all know it and deserve it.
Congratulations.

By: breckgirl

breckgirl — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:15:23 +0000

Our stories are so similar – it is weird. My husband has stuck with me, too – and I did some truly heinous things – I was unfaithful in my drunken times, said horrible things about him to his face – just awful. I once peed on the living room carpet – he cleaned that up, too. Isn’t it amazing what the people who love us will do in the face of such depravity? I am astounded still by my husband’s willingness to continue loving me when I could not love myself. We, too, have a wonderful son now and a much fuller and richer life. We have our struggles but I know now, for certain, that I will never leave him and he will never leave me. The commitment we made was til death do us part and we are sticking to that. Thanks for sharing – JB and Justin rock, as do all other supportive and loving spouses.

By: Junni

Junni — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:29:53 +0000

I’ll admit it…I teared up a little bit.

By: Sabine

Sabine — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:45 +0000

I know a lot of other people have already said this, but darlin’, YOU deserve this too. I hope all of us reminding you of that brings it home.

JB knew what he was doing hanging in there, and yes, you are lucky.. but so is JB.

By: fellowmom

fellowmom — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:12:37 +0000

Beautiful story–not only for how it shows what love can do, but for how it shows what being open to love can do. I am glad you grabbed the life preserver JB was holding out to you. I am glad that, at some level, you were willing to believe you were worth it and would be able to make a wonderful life for yourself and your family.

Maybe this should be your book? You are so funny, but this is such a powerful story. Go team dork!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:55:45 +0000

Damn you woman! I should know better than to read these post’s at work because now i have tears and I have to be in a meeting in 5 minutes and that is hardly enough time to fix my makeup =o\
This post was beautiful. You and JB are awesome people and both of you very strong, you are both lucky to have each other. Riley is by far the luckiest to have been blessed with two such strong motivated parents. You guys know what marrige is all about, it’s about the hard times and getting through them because that is what makes the good times so good.