Our 45th anniversary is this year. My life would be empty, lonely, meaningless w o him. Our granddaughter calls us Best Friends.
Can you just write without?
You are an excellent example of what Americans used to be, what American culture used to be. The America you grew up in and got married in, is long dead and gone. It is not even close to the same anymore.
You were lucky to be born in the 1950s as am I lucky.
It is very doubtful you would ever get to a 45th wedding anniversary if you were born today. Extremely doubtful. And very likely you would not get married at all.
That might be hard for you to imagine due to the era we grew up in but that is today’s reality. We were very lucky to be born into an era before the rapid decline and destruction of the common nuclear father, mother, children family.