30 Years of Marriage This month, we are celebrating 30 years of being married, 30 years of togetherness. My husband and I grew up in India where your religion, cast, the language you speak mattered, still does. We came from two different backgrounds; two different religions, two different cultures , and two different languages. Back then, everyone said we would never make it. The odds of us making it were stacked against us. But look at how far we have come. We defied those odds and here we are, for better or worse, in sickness and in health. Was it perfect? Of course not. We’d be lying if we said it was. We were barely out of college when we got married. I moved to the U.S. first, and he followed me soon after. There were no rules, no roadmaps, no elders to guide or interfere. We were figuring it out as we went. We made plenty of mistakes, stumbled, grew, and evolved (our kids might challenge the “matured” part!). When our children were born, we made the difficult decisio...