15 Dating Lessons Learned After I Met My Husband

#7 The right person is happy with you the way you are

Dee Dee Patterson
9 min readMar 19, 2021

When I opened my email on the morning of my 10th wedding anniversary, I saw an email from my husband titled, “Happy Anniversary to the love of my life.”

Then I read through the email about what I meant to my husband. I read the email slowly to soak in every word.

One of my favorite lines was, “To be able to come home to you every day makes me feel like the luckiest man in the world.”

I felt loved, cherished, and like I was exactly where I was supposed to be. It was not easy getting to that place. Dating was hard. With marriage being my main goal, it was even harder.

Now that I have been happily married for 10 years, it made me think of all of the things I got wrong about dating.

I know some of the things on the list below are obvious. They weren’t obvious to me. I just knew that I wanted to get married and start a family someday. I wasn’t prepared for all of the other frustrations.

Maybe some of the things I learned will help you as you’re looking for a spouse. Here’s what I learned:

1. Most dating relationships do not lead to marriage so don’t take failed

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Dee Dee Patterson
Dee Dee Patterson

Written by Dee Dee Patterson

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