Happy Anniversary My Love

I read what I titled this and it dawned me that I refer to you as "My Love" quite often.  While that isn't surprising because I love you so, the term "MY Love" seems to have caught my for what it really means.  I don't just love you, you are what is to me.  You are in fact MY love.

I can't imagine that either of thought 34 years ago that we would still be side by side every day.  So few people accomplish 34 years.  I looked this up, in 1989 2.2 Million couples got married.  Fewer than 400,000 remain married to this day.  Less than 1 in 5 and almost no one that we know has even come close to being married for as long as we have.

I am being honest when I tell you that you are my greatest accomplishment.  When people tell me they have been married for long periods of time, I don't joke when I tell them that is the most impressive thing they could tell me.  Marriage - and a happy marriage - is important to me.  More important than anything else.

So that is why the term "MY love" suddenly seems to be more important than I had always thought.  I know everything I know about love from you.  I don't love other people like I love you.  It isn't as important to me that other people love me as much as it means to have you love me.  You are MY love.

There are so many reasons why I love you.  The endless smiles.  The constant fun.  The hugs.  The kisses.  The always available had to hold.  The knowing that you will always be there with me.  The FOOD!  The sound of your voice.  The way you smell.  Your HAIR!  Other things that can't be mentioned in a family forum.  I could go on and on.

You are my good moods, my bad moods, my safe moments and my refuge in my scared moments.  

You are my arm candy, my fashion coordinator, my sense of style and my event planner.

You are my romance, my boring nights on the couch, my wine dinner nights and my card/game playing nights.

You are my endless playlist of songs, my reason for watching corny movies and my reason why touching family TV makes me tear up.

You are my best friend, my cohort in crime, my confident when we do silly things no one should ever see but us and my endless reason why I race home from work everyday.

You are my everything.

So the next time you hear me call you MY love, just remember it is more than a nice thing to say.  It is very important.  It is the reason I am who I am today.  Because you gave me YOUR love and in turn I learned MY love.

Happy anniversary my love.  No one does it like we do, and no one ever will.

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

The Whole of the Moon

 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmunk3D8_E&feature=share

I watch this video often.  I love the song.  I love the moment.  The dance, the looks on their faces, etc.

I've loved this song for a long time.  For years, I never paid attention to what it meant.  Never cared.

Many years back I heard it again and very much decided was a grand Tracy song.  The lyrics are truly about a guy with some reverence for his mate.  He loves her personality.  He loves how she thinks.  He trusts what she says.  He believes he needs her perspective to complete him.  It is very romantic.

"I pictured a rainbow, you held it in your hands".  He knows the best he can do is see a rainbow.  She on the other hand can touch a rainbow.  He needs that.

"I had flashes.  But you saw the plan".  He has some idea of what is going to happen.  She knows.  He needs that.

"I saw the crescent.  You saw the whole of the moon".  He grasps some things.  She understands how everything fits.  He needs her.

The song has several other lines that have similar themes.

Today I watched it and realized the song has some lines that work in reverse.  Things he does for her.  Things she needs from him.

"I spoke about wings.  You just flew"  She has dreams.  He makes her dreams come true.  She needs him.

"I wondered, I Guessed and and I tried.  You just sighed".  She worries about things.  He makes certain she doesn't need to.  She needs him.

So now the chorus feels different.

"I saw the crescent.  You saw the whole of the moon".  We both bring things to our relationship the other needs from them.  Things we count on.  Things that we know the other will always provide for us.

We are nearing 35 years and I am still finding new reasons to love you.  Almost 35 years and I am still learning how to make this work as well as it does.

I'll never stop trying to learn new things about us.  I love you.

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

 I managed to fall one day under a year since I updated this blog.

Bad me.  I promise it is only because it requires extreme focus to do so.

I feel focused today.  Then I heard this song:

I met you in the dark, you lit me up You made me feel as though I was enough We danced the night away, we drank too much I held your hair back when You were throwing up Then you smiled over your shoulder For a minute, I was stone-cold sober I pulled you closer to my chest And you asked me to stay over I said, I already told ya I think that you should get some rest I knew I loved you then But you'd never know 'Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go I know I needed you But I never showed But I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go I'll wake you up with some breakfast in bed I'll bring you coffee with a kiss on your head And I'll take the kids to school Wave them goodbye And I'll thank my lucky stars for that night When you looked over your shoulder For a minute, I forget that I'm older I wanna dance with you right now Oh, and you look as beautiful as ever And I swear that everyday you'll get better You make me feel this way somehow I'm so in love with you And I hope you know Darling, your love is more than worth its weight in gold We've come so far, my dear Look how we've grown And I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go I wanna live with you Even when we're ghosts 'Cause you were always there for me when I needed you most I'm gonna love you 'til My lungs give out I promise 'til death we part like in our vows So I wrote this song for you, now everybody knows That it's just you and me 'til we're grey and old Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go Oh, just say you won't let go

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