Yes you did, and an awesome sense of humor like yours helps keep a marriage going.
In all seriousness, congratulations to you. You picked wisely. I was married 30 years to the wrong woman, and I didn't.
Wishing you and the Mrs. many more years of happiness going forward. Best to both ofyou.
I spent decades of my life single, literally thinking I would never find that “right” one. My wife may not be rocking the cover of a magazine, but she is attractive. She has a great heart and we love each other's company. She has never been -itchy or anything other than loving, and I hope she'd say something similar about me. I can minorly frustrate her and she can immediately sense when I'm the same with her, and she is usually right on top of it, asking if I'm okay. These occasions don't even happen with ny frequency.
I can say she's a bit younger than I am, and she only ever wanted to marry someone older. She has a STEM undergrad, as do I.
She is a woman of God, and that is probably her most attractive quality. Following God is most important to her, and is one of the qualities I wanted in my wife, and I think I generally meet this, with her, too.
I was sometimes jealous of some who married great-looking girls or saddened when a girl I thought was sweet married a likely jerk of a man, but when it came to my Christian friends and acquaintances ever marrying, I was always just happy for both partners—never jealous. If anything, I was sometimes saddened, because I knew I wouldn't be doing much with either, any more, but it kept me looking for the right one, for me.
It took years, but it paid off. I always felt like such a woman would become noticeable to me, as the pickings became fewer, and in a way, that is somewhat what happened.
I knew I could not settle with a woman who was also not a great friend and that it was far better to remain single than to be in a bad marriage, but when you aren't in any relationship, that becomes a hard pill to continually swallow.
In the end, I met her online, and she was not local to me, but we agreed to meet after talking a while and we spent time with friends in the area, so it was quasi-chaparoned. That was a great start and we each saw the genuine other person was whom we had seen over our messaging/video app, over the prior months.
It continued, from there, and we are both really happy we found each other, and we hope others can have similarly healthy relationships.