Well, Thak and I didn't get to live together until we'd been married almost half a year. I can't recall any real problems we had or adjustments that we had to make. I mean, he folds his shirts differently than I do, but that's only a small thing. We're both the same level of neat freak, and we're both a little bit OCD about certain things, but luckily, all of our little OCD things coexisted nicely. We only got to live together for a couple months that time, and he left for Iraq. Now, we've been able to live together for almost 7 months, so we're just now getting a feel for how we REALLY are as a couple in the same location. I'm trying really hard to think if there is anything that just drives me nuts that he does, or anything he's mentioned to me, but I really can't think of anything. I mean, of course there's always the standoff about dishes, and he has to be reminded to take out the trash, which I hate to do, so I always end up taking it out myself, but otherwise, I really can't think of anything...

I don't think we're necessarily more alike than other couples we know, but I think we've been through enough big stuff that small stuff just no longer registers on our radar screen... I do not care that he leaves his shoes, dirty uniforms, and dishes everywhere because it means that he is here with me and not in some desert somewhere. I do not care if he eats more than me and Erin combined. Sure, it ups our grocery bill through the roof, but it means he is alive. That's all that matters. Everything else is just window dressing, and the first couple years we had went a long way toward teaching us about what's important. That's why we never argue over small stuff, or really much at all. It's just not worth it to worry about those things when we have real matters of life and death which are far more worthy of our attention.

He's worth it.