May 27, 2004
Their Love Inspires Me - And Hopefully They'll Forgive the Gratuitous Use of This Photo
Every once in a great while, I meet a couple who really, truly get it. They get each other. They get what love is about. They talk with each other. They communicate. They love. With all that they are and all that they do, they love.
Two of my favorite people are celebrating their 9th anniversary of wedded bliss. They deserve only the best that life has to offer.
To them, I'd like to say: May love find you lacking nothing. May your hearts be filled to the brim each day. And, may you continue to recognize how precious this gift is. You're already well aware of this, but please don't ever forget.
He said, last year:
I remember the first time we danced together. It was years ago, but it seems like yesterday. The song was “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge. She melted into my arms. It was so comfortable--it felt like home. I had a feeling right then, that I had found something special, something that I should never let go. So I didn’t. We were married a year later.
He says that still today.
They are sentimental and sweet. Funny and gentle. Kind and respectful. They are everything that you'd expect from newlyweds. They've been together 10 years. 9 of those have been as husband and wife.
That's pretty special.
You two, your love and your relationship brings me hope and inspires me to settle for nothing less than what I can see is possible when it's done the right way.
Happy Anniversary!
yay.
it so warms me to hear of couples like this.
And you wrote about it so nicely. It's one thing to fanatasize or write fiction about love, but it's nothing short of amazing when you encounter it in your own life or in someone who is willing to be transparent enough to express it so well.
I wrote a song for my husband before we were married. One line is, "When you finally held me, I knew my heart had come home."
Although I suspect that sense of love being a place to abide is a pretty universal requirement, your friend is the only other person I've ever heard put it into those words. It's nice to know that men recognize it, too.
Posted by: Kathy at May 28, 2004 06:10 AMAwww... shucks. Thanks!
Glad you're feeling better.
Posted by: The Couple in Question at May 28, 2004 06:40 AMI only hope that one day I may too find a love like that - Congrats to you both! :)
Posted by: Zaldor at May 28, 2004 11:14 PMMy wife and I have been married for 10 years, and like your friends, "When a Man Loves a Woman" is our song. Small world.
Posted by: Sam at May 31, 2004 10:24 AM