Love Conquers All

This blog post is a week late. I admit to not feeling well over the holiday week and apologize for the lapse. This is a post I really wanted to make last week.

I spent some time in New York with my nephew and his wife this past weekend. They are experiencing the most challenging part of their lives right now and it was nice to just hang out with them. It turns out I learned a lot of very good information about them. So this blog entry will couple a note about us in the same light as our young, recently married nephew and his wife.

I think few people really understand the true power of being in love with someone. So few people really get to experience what it really means. There are millions of people who date or even marry without really knowing what it means. Luckily, I now know a second couple who truly gets he true meaning and the real power of being in love.

True love is all about being there for each other no matter what the challenge. When life throws you one of it's many curves, having someone to manage through it with is important. Take this past summer for us, it was one of the most challenging times for our marriage. Only the fact that we truly love each other and have that knowing that we will always be there for each other made our challenge bearable. It was one of those times that we tapped into the power of our love to carry us through. Our nephew and his wife find themselves in a similar situation.

The power of true love allows you to do the following things...

It allows you to hide how scared you might be so at you don't upset the other, and still have them intuitively know exactly how you are feeling.

It allows you to find a way to sleep in a hospital bed together even though you know one of you might all to the floor.

It allows you to know when a hug is really the best medicine you need at that moment.

It allows you to see how amazing someone looks even youth they aren't showered, made up, or looking like they did when you first met them.

It allows you to hold a hand for as long as it needs to be held. Never for an instant considering letting go. Because at least one of you (and likely both of you) needs that hand to be held.

It talks about the future even when everything around you indicates that those conversations might not be the best fit right now.

It allows you to see past a bad day and know that good days are just around the corner.

It allows you to smile and joke around at the exact right time to make the other person feel just a little more comfortable.

It knows when you need that look from across the room that let's you know at this moment too will pass very shortly.

So we should be proud of our nephew and his wife. They seem to be pretty close to the path we took to truly being in love with each other. Because as we have learned over the years, the is a big difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

As always I am in love with you.

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.