{"id":165,"date":"2012-07-17T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-08-06T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:41:15","slug":"the-man-beside-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"The Man Beside Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2346_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-188\" title=\"IMG_2346_small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2346_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2346_small.jpg 307w, http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2346_small-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I was laying in bed the other night, I looked over, smiled at my husband, and I thought to myself, for the first time in my life I am truly content. I have an amazing husband, three wonderful sons, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and my education. The man laying beside me, is a large part of that contentment. This is for him:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Man Beside Me<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me makes sure that I know that I am loved every day.<\/p>\n<p>He works hard to provide a home full of warmth and love.<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me loves me for me, not someone he wants me to be.<\/p>\n<p>He gives everything to me, never asking for anything in return.<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me is tender-hearted, sweet, loving and kind.<\/p>\n<p>He has more love to give than most people I know.<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me is a man of strength and honor,<\/p>\n<p>never faltering in his beliefs or his integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me is my home, my safety, my shelter from the storm, and my<\/p>\n<p>heart,<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me, has been there in sickness and in health,<\/p>\n<p>in riches and in poor, and has never faltered.<\/p>\n<p>The man beside me\u00c2\u00a0will forever be the love of my life, the man I married,<\/p>\n<p>the man I cherish.\u00c2\u00a0I love him more than I can possibly say.<\/p>\n<p>Happy second anniversary my love! I look forward to growing old with you!<\/p>\n<p>thegeekwife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As I was laying in bed the other night, I looked over, smiled at my husband, and I thought to myself, for the first time in my life I am truly content. I have an amazing husband, three wonderful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[9,20,21,19],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general","tag-anniversary","tag-honor","tag-love","tag-strength"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}