‘Through it All’: This couple knows how to stand by each other through thick and thin

“I saw it in her beautiful eyes,” Brad Hutchins said when asked how he knew Marie was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. She is one truly amazing person who makes his life infinitely better, and knowing her is like knowing the best person in the world.

When he first met her, Brad was just tagging along with a friend to drop off some butter. Well, after Marie’s daughter called him Bread and he started telling his friends they were dating well before they became official, it was evident very early on that Marie was the only person Brad wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

Between their pickleball playing, their hiking ventures, their swimming fun, and Brad just admiring everything about Marie, Brad loves living life with his doting wife every single day. He loves the fact that she loves to get out and adventure and that she is a pillar of support and a role model for hard work.

What he also admires about his wife is how great of a mother she is. He got a taste of the action right from the start, as she brought her two daughters into the relationship. She was a phenomenal single mother who would do anything for her girls, and that was something that stuck with Brad right away.

Then, they had two sons together, and there is nothing Marie would not do for any of those four kids. She has been their steadfast and the one person they can always count on.

“LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE,” Brad said when asked what makes his wife a great matriarch. “She is smart, dedicated and will do anything for her kids and grandkids.”

Speaking of her grandkids, Marie has two of them, and she loves to spoil them. She pours so much love onto both of them, and the way she bonds with them both is special.

“I admire her dedication and love for her kids and me,” Brad said. “She is always there for me. She is the smartest person I know. Her love is beautiful. Her work ethic and humor are second to none.”

As a wife, much of who Marie is remains the same. She is the most reliable individual in Brad’s life, and she is his go-to for advice and support.

She brings out the best in him every day as well. Brad admires his wife so much that he strives to be everything she deserves and so much more.

“She is a mother, leader, survivor, has a great work ethic, and is beautiful,” he said.

Brad could go on and on about his wife, and he is grateful that he has been married to her for over 24 years. Those years have gone by so fast, and he would not trade them for the world.

“I watch her love life and want to better herself every day,” Brad said. “She has had stage 4 cancer for 20 years and struggles with sickness and fatigue, but survival is not her goal, living is. And she wants to live well.”

The fight in Marie is absolutely astonishing. She gets up every morning with cancer ready to kick her butt, but she does everything in her power to not let it. She fights for her friends, for her family, and for herself, and everyone in her circle is proud of this fact.

They are also just all proud to be a part of this amazing woman’s life. She brings so much joy to everyone around her, and people love spending time with her.

Oh yeah, Marie is also an animal lover who owns and operates a pet care business, so when she is not pouring her love out to humans, she is pouring it out to animals.

At the end of the day, she is just a truly amazing person. Marie is everything Brad could have asked for in a wife and then some, and he is just so astonished by her amazingness each and every single day.

“My wife is the brightest star in the sky. She is the smartest, most loveable woman I have ever known. We have been through so much, but through all of it we were together.” – Brad