five years

Happy 5th wedding anniversary to my love. 

When I listen to this song, my heart swells with all the love that I hold in my heart for you, for us, and for our life together. Thank you for always making me feel like this:

There were days, in our early years, when I didn't know if we were going to make it. There were times when I doubted if we had what it took to make it through a lifetime together, to survive what can be the unbearable pressure of the daily routine. When I look at the photos from our wedding day, I am overcome with emotion at the naivety and simple enthusiasm with which we were entering marriage.

August 12, 2006

We were armed with little more than a somewhat bewildering mutual understanding that we were meant to share our lives together, and a sweet and slightly deluded blind faith in an institution of we which we had so little understanding. And yet, here we are. We are still together - having survived partially on that naive hope and enthusiasm with which we started out, and having gutted it out through our fair share of heart-wrenching mistakes. We are more in love with each other than ever before, which is a beautiful and hard-earned gift.

I am thankful - for each day, for each year that I have gotten to share with you. My heart delights in the sense of security and peace that I feel in my core when I think of us, and of what we are building together. I value, above everything else in my life, what exists between us, and I promise all over again to love you forever.