From the beginning, nothing about my relationship with my husband, Steve, was "normal." My husband didn't propose to me, and I didn't propose to him; there was just a mutual assumption that we would get married and spend the rest of our lives together. Our wedding was uniqueWe first went to a local jewelry store to buy my engagement ring and our wedding bands. We didn't worship together and rarely met the members of each other's churches. We're ignoring social norms like we always have because it always worked for us.

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