Day 198 - 7th Anniversary

Today my honey and I are celebrating our 7 year anniversary of not being married. People are often curious about why we haven't gotten married, our families probably more than anyone else.

James and I met when we were both working for the same company on Wall Street in New York City. Neither of us belonged there really and when we met we had the instant connection of fellow misfits. We were best mates for about eight months before he put the moves on me. We have had a remarkably easy relationship. I say "remarkably" because I had a pretty awful relationship track record before meeting him.

James is a good human being and I love and admire him for that. He is kind, gentle, honest, generous, emotionally available, reliable, socially-politically aware and active. extremely bright, financially responsible, adventurous, great fun to be with and most importantly he is completely devoted to me me me. I have never had anyone have so much faith in me and my abilities or be so nurturing and supportive ... not even my parents.

So why aren't we married? Well, James asked me about a year after we started going out and I said yes but we're rather bohemian and, as the English say, not really "bovvered" about being married or not so we really never got around to going beyond agreeing to marry and I don't know if we ever will. I think it's sort of like in that moment we acknowledged our commitment to each other and that's all we needed. If we wanted to have children, I'm sure we would have gotten married a long time ago, but since neither of us want to have children and the EU legally recognises domestic partnerships, we don't seem to have much incentive or reason to marry. Not a very romantic answer I know, but there you have it.

For our anniversaries we don't usually exchange gifts, just cards and tonight we will go out for dinner. I am going to eat very lightly during the day because I want to save my calories in case I want to have dessert.

B - 227
1 apple - 72
250 ml of soymilk - 155

L - 230
250ml of soymilk - 155
3 raw carrots - 75

S - 221
20g cashews - 114
30 g dries banana - 107

D
Appetizer - Goat cheese, date chutney & walnut bread
Main - Pan seared Halibut with mash and greens
Dessert - Sundae

Calories - 678 known calories and a gazillion unknown ones
Exercise - 1 hr. tennis
Water - 6 cups