Excellent perspectives on both marriage and on life. I have a couple more years than that, and everything you said is true.
I also agree with your reasoning for whether looking ahead or behind, you told it well.

You need to fix your source for your photo @sofs-su, it should take the reader to the image used (in this case, Pixabay) and not download it onto their system, that does not tell the reader that you have sufficient rights to use it the way it is set up now.
I clicked on your link and it downloaded the image to my system.
!LADY