Today

Today on this day, with the world as witness and before God in heaven I confess to you that you are the love of my life.  This day commemorates the day that you changed and renewed my life.  The day I stopped being “me” and began being “us.”

Since that day, my life has not been the same.  I will never again wake up without looking to see if you are by my side.  Never again will I come home without expecting you to be there. Never again will I look at our children and not see you in their eyes.  Never again will I go to sleep at night without thanking God that you are mine; my wife; my partner; my love.

You have changed my life in so many ways; some obvious and some almost imperceptible.  I don’t deny that we have had our difficult times, but we have also had so many happy moments, moments of tenderness and moments of passion.  I have all those moments saved in my thoughts and in my heart.  And no matter what happens, I know that I will have the memories of our life together to inspire me, console me, and to strengthen me. 

Maybe I don’t deserve you.  Maybe you are entirely too good for me.  But it is not important how you came to love me; nor how you came to need me; nor why you decided to stay with me.  It is enough for me that you said “yes”; that you want to spend your life with me; that you want to be my wife; that you want to live with me and our children.  I know that sound selfish, but I don’t care how you came to be mine, only that you are mine.

I thank the Eternal Lord that he put you in my path, and I thank you for accepting me.  Although I may be a sad, broken, imperfect and flawed man; I am completely and irrevocably yours.

I love you! I Love You! I LOVE YOU!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MY LOVE.



(from FOB Salerno, Afghanistan)