In Whic h I Am Grateful
Tomorrow I celebrate my ninth year of wedded bliss to my beloved wife TLC. I could not ask for a more loving, devoted, understanding, generous, perfectly-matched partner. She is the love of my life, and I don't know where I'd be without her. Really, I don't. And I shudder to speculate
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Belated congratz!!!! *throws confetti, pours whiskey for Ray and tea for TLC*
I had a friend ask me the other day, "So, how do you know when it's really love? How do you keep the flame burning? How do you keep it happy?"
I thought about it, and realized I didn't have some big pithy secret as to how to make love stay. Some love just wants to stay, and it's a delight to keep it around. The interaction is easy; it flows. The days shade happily into each other: a nice dinner here, a weekend trip there, a great brunch the next week, a family wedding the next month, a really hilarious bull session a bit later, an intimate heart-to-heart talk a couple days later. You don't even notice the time passing; you'll look up one day and think, Damn, we've been together all these years! Where did the time go?
Before I met Kev, it seemed like I was always waiting for the next disappointment from whomever I was seeing, and spending tremendous amounts of energy on trying to solve stupid conflicts that just kept coming back over and over and over again. I've got some inkling of how your divorced friend must feel there.
But when you're in love with the right person, there's no real question of "How do you make love stay." There's no uncertainty, because you already know love wants to be there with you.
And I'm sure you & TLC know exactly what I mean. :-D
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