Book #5 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

It's strange. When you're getting married, it seems that the majority of your focus is on planning the actual wedding: what flowers you'll use, what dresses your bridesmaids will wear, what the guests will eat and drink. Essentially, you stress over ever single detail...except the marriage.

As someone who's getting married, I never really thought of what it would be like to be a wife. Sure I've been a girlfriend and a fiancee, but what it would be like to be someone's wife hasn't really crossed my mind all that much (sorry Troy). That is, until I started reading The Time Traveler's Wife.

In this novel, Henry is a time traveler. He begins visiting Clare when she is six-years-old, and his visits are a huge part of her life. Eventually they meet in Henry's present, and get married. But being married, to a time traveler, or to anyone for that matter, isn't always easy.

Not only does Clare have to worry that Henry will disappear to another "time" every moment of their lives, she's also concerned with his safety while he's gone, and whether or not he'll ever return. Although this book is fiction, and I know that my fiance is not a time traveler, it still spoke about the partnership, love and respect that encompasses a marriage.

Yes, being married is about the fun stuff and growing old together, but this book points out that it's also about much more than that - being committed to each through the good and bad, and not giving up when things get difficult.

You know, the stuff people promise in their vows.

To quote a great movie, (ahem, Wedding Crashers) in order to really make it work, you need to weather both blue skies and squalls. You need to work together and at the end of every day, never forget to love.