Shannon here: Amy R. Anguish shares her inspiration for her latest Contemporary Romance, Operation: Find a Job Guy. Comment or answer the question in this post to enter the drawing for a paperback copy, US only. Deadline: June 24th, 11:59 pm central time. Here’s Amy:
The Greatest Adventure
Same-old, same-old. I suppose that’s a risk a person has to take, settling with one person for the rest of her life. After all, isn’t staying with the same person forever … boring?
That’s the stance my character, Skye Jones, has toward marriage … and a desk job … and probably a few other things in life. She wants adventure and thinks that only comes with freedom. Good thing for her, I was writing her story. And I tend to not agree with her. ????
I married my husband nineteen years ago. And I can’t remember being bored any of those 6,939 days, give or take one or two, accounting for leap years. Do I know what to expect. For the most part. But that’s not boring. It’s comforting.
And let’s be honest, you can know someone forever and still discover something new about him. My husband still says things that I had no idea had happened in his past or that were his favorites. And I have a feeling there are things about me he doesn’t know too.
As my character Skye goes through her book, Operation: Find a Job Guy, she’s stuck working for her sister’s wedding planning business. Already this has her feather’s ruffled, because she doesn’t understand all these girls and their obsession with making sure their wedding day is perfect.
Then, while wrangling a flower girl, she strikes up a conversation with a sister of the bride. A sister who describes marriage as an adventure.
Adventure? Skye just can’t believe that. It doesn’t fit her definition of adventure at all. But the more she watches the sister with her family. And the more she watches her own sister, Rain, enjoy her marriage, the more she wonders if maybe she was wrong … at least a little bit.
Don’t get me wrong. Marriage isn’t all about having fun. It doesn’t even always have happy moments.
But I can honestly say I would never have had some of the adventures I’ve experienced without my husband along. New jobs. New cities. Two kids. Baseball games. I can go on. We’ve experienced a lot in only nineteen years.
And the best part is having someone to go on the adventure WITH. Because what fun is an adventure if you don’t have someone to share it with? To laugh together over memories? Or lean on each other during hard times? Yep. Having my husband go through life with me makes it so much better.
A lesson I try to teach Skye in my story. I’ll let you decide if she learns it well enough or not.
Question for Readers: What about you? Would you describe marriage as an adventure? What is something (clean) about marriage that makes life so much better for you?
About Amy: Amy R Anguish grew up a preacher’s kid, and in spite of having lived in seven different states that are all south of the Mason Dixon line, she is not a football fan. Currently, she resides in Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and son, and usually a bossy cat or two. Amy has an English degree from Freed-Hardeman University that she intends to use to glorify God, and she wants her stories to show that while Christians face real struggles, it can still work out for good. Learn more & connect:
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About the book – Operation: Find a Job Guy
She’s set on saving her car … and her heart.
Skye Jones has one goal for the summer—keep her father from taking away her convertible. That’s the
only reason she’s agreed to work at her sister’s bridal shop in Boulder, Colorado. It will buy her some time to figure out if there’s a non-boring job out there. Why else would she have anything to do with weddings when she has no interest in marriage?
Benjamin Smith can’t quite figure out how he ended up a groomsman in two different weddings over the summer, but with his sister and a cousin both getting married, he’s spending a lot of time at Happily Ever After events. Falling for a blonde with no dreams of settling down wasn’t in his five-year plan, but the more he sees Skye, the more he wants to figure her out. But all she sees him as is a boring attorney and her complete opposite.
Romance was supposed to be for Skye’s friends. But Colorado might hold more than she knew she was looking for.
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Adventure? I’ve had a 47 year one. With the same guy! Of course there are days that are more fun than some others, but one thing it never is, is boring!
One of the most fun things, I think, is watching the way our kids and grandkids are turning out. Like us, but still their own people. If we weren’t married, we wouldn’t be able to compare notes and laugh together about these other crazy humans!
Yes! It’s so much fun to have someone to laugh with!
Marriage is an adventure, although not always fun. I like doing new things, but there’s something comforting about the familiar, especially when you share it with the person you love most.
I completely agree.
I have never been married, but I think good communication and listening are important.
You are definitely correct, Diana!
My hubby and I just celebrated our 28th anniversary. Marriage is one big adventure and has just gotten better with every passing year. I love doing things together, whether it’s household chores or traveling or camping. Life is better together.
I couldn’t agree more. I can’t imagine doing life without my husband.
Glad to have you back, Amy. I agree marriage is an adventure. We try to take one day a week and do something fun. For us, that usually means flea marketing. We both love muscadines and there’s a family owned company in Arkansas that grows them and makes juice we love. We’ve been talking about seeing if we can go there and pick some muscadines. I’m not sure when muscadines are harvested, but it will have to be cooler weather. I don’t do heat well 🙂
That sounds like a really fun outing!
Marriage is an adventure because I am always learning new things about him even though we just celebrated our 23rd anniversary on June 10th. One thing I truly appreciate about our marriage is that he loves me and I know I can rely on him when I really need him. That was something that I did not receive from my father when I was growing up.
Belated happy anniversary! Yours is four years and one day before ours. 😉
And yes, having someone to rely on is priceless.
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