Today is our 9th wedding anniversary and I think my sadness is mostly for him, because he has no memory of the wonderful six years we had together before AD. He still knows me as someone he loves, but doesn't know I'm his wife. If I choose to visit at his ALF today I guess I won't mention the anniversary, as it would have no meaning for him and might just be one more confusing thing he doesn't understand. I think I'm going to go to my favorite root beer float place to celebrate this day.
Happy Anniversary Pris! Ours is at the end of the month. Although all the memories are mostly mine now, I do take out our wedding pictures and show him. He always smiles and tells me how beautiful I looked and how young we were (not really -33 & 34) but it does seem like a lifetime ago.
Happy Anniversary Pris. Search around in your memory banks and pull out a few more good moments. I wouldn't trade my own memories for anything and when I'm receptive inside, more happy memories float up.
I completely understand how you feel. Ours was June 11th and my DH didn't remember it either. Then flowers arrived from my brother. Dh asked whay I got flowers and I said they were for US for our anniversary from my brother..then he said " Oh I forgot all about it, I didn't even get you a card" and he felt bad. I told him had my brother not sent flowers I wasn't going to say anything, He asked why not and I said that I didn't want you to feel bad.. He said You would do that for me?and I said of course...
On our anniversary last year, I bought a couple cards for DH.
As the day approached, I could not find them anywhere. Turns out he found them, thought he had bought them for me - signed them and gave them to me!!! (They did not say "to my husband"!!!)