In movies and television, we are constantly being inundated with young love, so we pretty much all know what that looks like. However, it’s rare that we get a look at what love looks like between two people who have been together for decades.

That’s why a mother named Amy Betters-Midtvedt decided to take to Facebook to reveal what the love between her and her husband is like after 26 years together.

“There was a time I brushed my teeth, hair sprayed my hair and lipsticked my lips if I even thought I might run into this guy on the way to class,” Amy wrote. “I never wanted him to see me at anything less than my absolute, albeit big haired, best. And now here we are … bringing sexy back with our his and her CPAP machines. This is what love actually looks like friends.”

She added that this love “looks like suffering through long, long, loud nights of your partner snoring. And snoring. And snoring … And mornings where your wife is a giant pile of smeared mascara and grouchy attitude because once again insomnia claimed her nighttime hours.”

She wrote that it’s also “laughing your heads off when [you] end up with CPAP machines and … can’t wait to jump into bed together.”

Amy later explained that she initially wrote the post because she thought the photo of herself and her husband on CPAP machines was hilarious. However, the photo then got her thinking about the definition of marriage, which she said is “looking out for each other, laughing together at growing older, and loving and accepting those changes in ourselves together.”

“We fell in love when I was 19 and he was 21,” Amy said. “I think we had the idea that life would be perfect once we could get married and live together. Of course, so many parts of that are wonderful, but it’s also hard to live in harmony with any human … even one you are in love with.”

In the end, Amy said that the secret to her 26 year marriage with her husband is that they can laugh at themselves and each other.

“We have always had so much fun together and that part has been just as it was way back in the day that we met in the dorms at school,” she said. “That ability to have fun and find the humor in the crazy has gotten us through the hard times.”