My proudest moment - finding a marrying a beuatiful, intelligent Catholic woman of good background and education who wants to and does stay home and take care of our children, does not want anything to do with birth control, and always asks my permission to leave the house except for regular domestic or medical visits and chores while I am at work and always asks my permission to spend our money on major items.
Such a wife is more valuable and precious than all the riches of the world.
I suspect that is yours too.
"Who has found her has found a treasure."
Allegorically, I compare it in my mind to the elves pursuing the silmarils. They were willing to sacrifice everything, even their lives which would have been immortal as long as they didn't take any chances, in pursuit of this thing of beauty.
While it's true that "inner beauty" is what counts, I have found that "inner beauty" shines through the flesh, and makes any woman with a deep spiritual life beautiful and desirable.
I suspect that yours is too.
Thank you for the assumed compliment. And it is true. But I hope I don't sound complaining, proud or ungrateful if I say that it was only after many years of difficult struggle that required a total commitment to adhering to the truth despite every possible personal, familial and societal obstacle. Travelling from the seventies to "Chaste Christian Marriage" as defined by Pope Pius XI was a "hard and narrow road." Unlike my wife and I who had to learn everything the hard way, however, my daughters who are on the brink of marriageable age are visions of both natural and supernatural loveliness, totally dedicated to true Catholic principles in marriage, if God calls them to that vocation.