I’ve finally become my best friend’s husband. The pandemic is a storm that kept us engaged for three years, rather than married. But what that storm allowed us to do is learn to truly become one another’s ports — a safe place to land. Learn to grow for and towards one another. We are still learning. Marriage found us when it thought it we were ready to do the work. The work of healing. The work of love. The work of patience. We are working. Marriage found us when it thought it was our time. That time is now.