My husband is my best friend. He is the best friend that when I am down and low, I can lay everything on him and he’ll just listen and hug me after it’s all done and say, “I love you.” He’s also the best friend who will tell me that I’m falling behind and I need to set my priorities straight. You know, him and I, we have a very long history together and through the years that we have been together, I have heard and seen so much from others about who we are. But it’s never been the truth, no, it’s always been what they believe the story is.
The truth is…we have struggled together in more ways than anyone could ever imagine and we have held onto each other when we had nothing. We’ve had to start from the ground up numerous times and survived to tell the story. We have had little to go on and we’ve had a lot to share. Through our trials and tribulations together, we have learned one thing: WE are stronger as one and when WE stand together, magic happens.
This isn’t to say no one else isn’t…but this here is about me and him…and the magic I know is about us. Yours might be different and similar in ways, I don’t know, but today, this moment, what you are reading is about us. I’ve clung to my husband in times where I was so broken where I had nowhere out and he was the one whose voice called out to me in the dark to say, “I’m right here.” I’ve pushed him away to corners even when I wanted him because I was so angry at myself. And when he still came back and held me, I just…gave in entirely and asked for forgiveness. There are times where it’s silence between us because the air is thick with uncertainty of what to say without wondering how things will become. When one breaks the silence, we each take a deep breath because it’s exactly the same thoughts we’ve carried. And this is how we know that we are magic together.
I have felt so much love growing inside of me through the years and as I became a braver and brighter woman, I have the courage to share my desires with him more and more. As a younger couple, we lacked funding and time, to be together and we also grew up in a generation where we weren’t allowed to be together without a chaperone. So the times spent as one seemed to be rare and now we are older and have the capability to do so, it seems that we are always looking for a way to be touring the world together.
And I love it. I love it that I get to wake up to my best friend every day and that he and I can laugh about the simplest of things while trying to find different topics to discuss. I love it that I can tour the darkest of caves and the most intricate designs of homes with him and we have the most incredible time together. We are both lovers of food so everything must have a place to experience it. The memories we’ve made have been simply breathtaking and through the years as we get older and experience firsts of different things as a couple, we are being brought closer and closer together.
I love hearing romantic love stories…I do. It’s so uplifting to hear and we don’t hear enough of it. We hear the negative ones where there’s so much heartbreak and infidelity but the romantic, old soul of love…it’s never enough and love is simply the easiest way to win the heart of another. Our anniversary is coming up in June…3 decades together…it’s quite a collection and more to be written. 