What I Needed to Hear

It took 5 days.  5 very long days.  5 days where every minute seemed like a full day.  5 days where each day crushed me a little more than the day before.

It was a punishment I couldn't bear.  One that literally tore my heart out.  One I deserved, but one I hadn't prepared myself to endure.  It was as if the rest of the world went silent.  As if there was nothing else I wanted to hear.  I sought 3 words - 3 words.  They had to come from you.  They had to be said the right way.  They had to be said with meaning.

For 5 days those words never came.

Then out of nowhere - at the right time - with the right feeling.  They came.  Suddenly everything was better.  Suddenly the emptiness in my chest vanished.  Instantly I felt fine.

I end this blog every time I updated it with the same thing.

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

It is as true today as it was when it was first typed.  You are the world to me.  Nothing in my life has ever been so important.  Nothing has ever been so critical in my life.

So it took the absence of 3 words to make me feel horrible.  Then it took those same 3 words to put it all back together again.

"I love you"

I love you too sweetie.  More than you will ever know.  More than even I know.

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