A week ago, August 1st, my wife and I officially celebrated 5 years of marriage. No doubt, marriage has been the craziest, life altering journey either of us have experienced. It has changed us and shaped us in ways we expected and ways we never would have imagined. We have gone from young idealistic twenty-somethings, to exhausted parents pursuing careers.

I still consider myself very much a rookie at marriage, a struggling rookie at that, but here are five things I have learned along the way...