Wife Life : Year 4

A lot had happened in the past 4 years, yet it felt like a breeze at the same time. The main difference is we were celebrating wedding anniversaries in the past with just the 2 of us, and now we’re 3! As our wedding anniversary is approaching, i was looking for an appropriate card for you but somehow, none of the cards i found could verbalize what i feel for you. And a simple “i love you” is not enough for a man whose love is the greatest. So I decided to make a letter to the man I love: 

Today marks one of the most important dates in the year for me — the day i married the love of my life, my lover and my bestfriend, the man i want to grow old with. This is the day on which I recapitulate everything you and I have been through in the past year and on which I think of how far we have come. And the truth is that we’ve accomplished a lot. Today, I remember our wedding day. I remember you, standing at the end of the aisle, waiting for me. I remember the way I felt when we said, “I do”. I remember how we promised to love each other until the end of time.

And how we were strong enough to make those promises come true.

The truth is that our love story was never a real life fairy tale. Like any other couple, we had our ups and downs. The truth is that we had some happy and some less happy times. I can clearly remember around this time last year, as i lost my father and our little embryo, you were the one who helped me get back on my feet when I thought I will never be. Having you as a rock is an understatement of how wonderful you are as a man of our house. We shared some good times and bore some bad ones. But we always had trust in love to show us the right way. We’ve always had faith in us and that is what makes our marriage perfect and special. It is the fact that we’ve never questioned our love. Because we always knew it. We knew that we would make it, no matter what.

We knew that we would overcome every obstacle which came our way and that we wouldn’t allow anyone or anything to hold us back. I know this sounds cheesy but my life really wouldn’t have been the same if I hadn’t met you. I could never thank you enough for feeling like home.

For being a loyal man, worthy of my trust.

For never making me doubt you, your intentions or your honesty. I could never thank you enough for making me fall in love with you every day for all these years.

For always reminding me what butterflies feel like. For never failing to surprise me and for remembering every little detail about me. For doing whatever it takes to make our dream come true to be parents. (Revelation of our pregnancy in the next blog)

But most of all—thank you for loving me the way you do. Thank you for putting up with me for all these years. For embracing my imperfections and for loving me because of them.