Mr and Mrs Harvey

So, I met my husband a few weeks shy of my 18th birthday on the campus of SIUC. He graduated from high school with my roommate, and they were good friends. One day I walk into my dorm room and there he was sitting in MY desk chair leaned back smoking bidi (an Indian cigarette). My first thought was, who is this dude sitting in MY chair and on top of that SMOKING in my room? My second thought was, he's kind of cute and definitely my type (dark skinned, basketball player frame, with a nice smile). After a couple of weeks we started hanging out together, and the rest is history!
Next month will make 13 years that we have been dating each other. It's still hard to believe that I found my soul mate at the tender age of 17 and 3/4 :). Over the past 13 years we have had our ups and downs, we even called it quits for about 2 1/2 years. But through everything he has remained my best friend. The one that I can run to with anything and the only person that makes me feel truly safe and understood. Even those couple of years we were broken up and living in different cities our friendship remained.
After about 10 years of dating guess what happens? HE KNOCKED ME UP!!! This was totally unexpected, not that I don't know how babies are made but I still didn't understand how I got pregnant LOL All I can say is the man must have some slow moving sperm!!! Which is ok with me because having a baby in my early twenties would have been, ummm not such a good thing.
Marriage was not really in our plan but once we became pregnant we decided that it was the best thing to do since one- we had not intentions on breaking up, and two- we wanted our baby to grow up in a family with everyone having the same last name. So on May 5, 2007 at eight months pregnant we jumped the broom! Or more like I wobbled to the court house and we said "I Do".
I can honestly say that being married has opened my eyes to a whole new world. It's very hard to explain but I look at things differently. I am a lot more protective of my relationship, I try a lot harder to understand his point of view, I enjoy taking care of him, even the sex is better as a married couple :) I have no regrets and can't even imagine not being his wife.
The road that Marvin and I have traveled has not been an easy one. Since we started out so young, at a time when we did not know ourselves very well, we made a few mistakes early on. We have helped each other through family crisis, including the death of his mother, the death of my sister, as well as my grandmother. These are things that rocks a person to their core, but together we made it through. When one person wasn't strong enough, the other one became stronger.
I could not imagine going through my life without my husband. I couldn't imagine having any one else be my "baby's daddy" LOL and I could not imagine loving anyone else with this much intensity and passion. He is my rock, my lover, my best friend and I love being the Mrs. in Mr and Mrs Harvey.