Winter Garden Magazine February 2016 - Justin & Holli Trisler | Page 17

My husband Daniel and I have been married for 8 years and we just “get” each other. He accepts my loud mouth, huge personality and non-stop chatter and I accept his love of Star Wars, obsession with football, and his 3rd grade sense of humor... And we adore each other. I think we’re pretty cute! that Daniel married a lemon... But he wouldn’t trade me for anyone else. We have been through sickness, loss of a child, unemployment, poverty and so much more in the 8 years we’ve been married. And it has never been easy. We work on our marriage every single day. It wasn’t love at first sight. We weren’t soul mates. But we CHOOSE to be in love everyday and we CHOOSE to be soul mates. Because LOVE is a choice. Daniel and I met in Atlanta, Georgia in 2006. I was rebuilding my life after Hurricane Katrina as I’m a New Orleans native. What I remember most about the beginning of “US” is that he made me laugh... And that I hadn’t laughed in a long time. Two years into our marriage I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. We often joke Because Ch oic e Love is a