Marriage to me has been a flurry of emotions. Loving and hurting. Long nights and breezes in and out of our bedroom window. Bare skin. Boiling showers. Home cooked dinners. Brittle bones. Sharing nights of ‘medium’ netflix marathons accompanied by chips and salsa and bottled root beer and chocolate soy milk. The talks that creeped into the next day in our feathered bed. Sleep coming late and waking at nearly noon- your hands searching for me during the in between. Exhausting each other with my ebb and your flow. Learning our share of patience with a puppy. Our quiet neighbors and the small unkempt back yard. Grocery shopping on a budget and dreaming up meals to make. Preparing breakfast as a team. You cooking eggs and bacon while I cook waffles or pancakes. Arguing over alfredo sauce and swallowing our pride night after night, just so we could fall asleep. Hanging pictures in the living room and taking turns sweeping the floor. Locked eyes lit by the moon. Painting walls and dancing in Disneyland. Quickly drinks and in-n-out burgers. The wind the rain and the clear skies.

Marriage has been a flurry of inconsistent passions- on each end of extreme. But one thing that has remained constant, is my overwhelming desire for you. I don’t know what tomorrow, or the next year holds, but I do know that it will always be you. Calming my fears, and helping my dreams take flight. It will be you I fall asleep loving & wake up wanting so much more of.

I don’t know much, but I am certain that this is exactly what I’ve been aching for.

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