A Letter for My Husband Upon Our Anniversary

Eight years ago on this day, you asked me to go with you on our first date. Three years later, on this same date, we married. Every morning and every night, I wonder once more how I managed to get so lucky.

From the moment we first met, not a day has gone by when I have not thought of you. From the first time I told you that I loved you, I have told you every day. Every day it has been true. When I am away from you, I miss you. When I see or hear or learn something new, I want to share it with you. When I feel joy, I want you to feel it too. When I feel pain, I turn to you for comfort and support. When I first see you from across a room, my heart jumps, my stomach flips, and my mouth forms into an unbidden smile.

Every night when I go to sleep, I see your face in the streetlight, and I thank God for your presence in my life. In the night, when I wake, I reach for you- while you sleep, I dream of you. When you are gone, I miss you, and wait for your return.

I admire your brilliance, your wit, your cleverness, your style. Your smile charms me, your laugh warms me, your voice echoes past my mind and straight to my heart. The expression in your eyes when you really look at me makes me weak in my knees.

I appreciate all the things you do to make our life as good as it is- when you take out the trash, when you do the dishes, when you pet the cats, when you go to work every day. I know that I can trust you completely with everything- with all the things that matter, and all the things that don't. You care for me in a way that I can only endeavor to deserve.

We have been through so much together- surgeries, medical emergencies, moving, divorces, marriages, friends who came and friends who have gone, sick pets, bad apartments, difficult jobs. And we have shared so much together- pets, trips, friends, family gatherings, love, beauties, affections, moments of transcendent joy. I don't know who I would be without you, and I cannot imagine living my life without you.

If I am guilty of wearing my heart on my sleeve, it is only because I never want there to be any doubt in your mind as to the depth of the feeling I bear for you.

Happy Anniversary,
Love Always,
Me