My husband and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary
On June 6th, Usaboku and his wife celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary.
I have some business to attend to after closing time today, so I'd like to celebrate with my wife the next day. It would also be nice if the next day was a day off so we could take it easy.
We tend to get caught up in our daily lives and forget to be grateful, so I want to cherish anniversaries.
I wrote about my thoughts on this anniversary in an article last year.
The opposite of grateful is obvious.
The everyday life that a couple spends together is not something to be taken for granted, but something irreplaceable and something to be grateful for.
Usabo and his wife worked at the same workplace.
At a welfare facility where baked goods are produced
As many of you may know, the Usaboku couple were former colleagues.
The on-site manager of the welfare facility where the owner started working after graduating was his wife, who was three years older than him. I remember her as a reliable and wonderful boss. It was truly amazing.
The owner has been transferred and changed jobs a lot, but he has spent most of his time in the same industry.
So, while we were dating and even after we got married, most of our conversations were about work. Dinner was like a little meeting. When we first started dating, he would constantly criticize my work while we were eating. Even after we changed jobs, we understood each other's work well, so we often talked about the work we had that day.
It's been the same since I first opened this store.
People around me often say to me, "I can't work with my husband," but I don't really understand that feeling.
For us, working together is the norm. I think the nuance of the word "partner" might be a little different.
My attitude towards work has been the same since we worked together as colleagues.
It has been 18 years since we first met as colleagues, and during that time we have always worked and talked together, looking in the same direction.
The way we work and what we value in our work remains the same even though we change industries. It's an extension of what we've built up together up until now.
Some of the things we value at our store are directly taken from the philosophy of the facility where we worked.
It's been five years since we started the shop, and looking back, I think all the time we've spent together up until now is packed into the shop we have now.
I sometimes think about things like that.
