Page 3 of 3It was a difficult time, but the Thompsons worked at remembering the positive. For a Valentine's Day surprise, Tiffany came up with 100 reasons why she still loved Tim. "I needed to do it as much for myself as for Tim," she says. "At first it was hard to come up with ten. Then I just flew on to 30. I got stuck at 50, but then I started listing some of the great memories we share. I made it to 100 reasons why he's such a blessing to me." So what's in store for the next ten years?
"Ten years from now, I hope we'll be beyond the issues we struggle with today," Tim says. "I'm trusting God that we'll mature."
"I'd like to find that we're deeper in love and that we've been faithful," says Tiffany, thinking of the unfaithfulness that broke up her childhood home. "I want to be a wife that my husband wants to be faithful to—and I want to be faithful to him."
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