10 years together

[Mr. Smith]

A man wrote this to his wife on their 10th year of marriage. It moved me.

I was going to call you and tell you what I am writing now but I wanted you to be able to read it again and remember it just the way I am right now.
I finally realized why it was that I enjoyed the notebook so much. Why the movie and the book touched me the way it did.
The feelings that I feel when I read the story or watch the movie aren’t new feelings or even feelings that they are causing me to feel. They are simply awakening memories of our life together. Feelings that I have had for you all my life. The incredibly deep feeling of love I feel when I look back at the times we have shared together.

I know sometimes that I seem like I have changed. I know sometimes you feel like you don’t even know me anymore but the truth is I am the same man now as I was then. You know me better then I know myself. You have more faith in me then I have in myself. You knew someday I would remember all that we have been to each other and the way that you can make me feel with just a kind word or smile. It’s not that I had forgotten but that I did not think of them enough. I don’t want that to happen again so I am writing this down.

The times that we have shared together have both hurt me deeply and brought me to places I thought that I could never reach. My love for you is my greatest strength and weakness. You truly make me what I am today and I love you for it. I told you once love was not just happy times and laughter. It is the ability of the other person to make you feel.

You make me feel alive, everyday. You are my reason for waking ever morning. You are my ambition and motivation when I don’t have any left in me. Some days we may argue but that is just when I am fighting in myself for what I know I should do and don’t have the strength to do it. I know that this is a turning point in our relationship and that the worst is behind us now. I am comfortable in the fact that we will never be apart. I am not afraid to love you with all my heart and soul.

What we have is special and when I thing back to certain times in our past I can see the images that people try to capture when telling a great story of true love.
The heart ache I felt my last night before leaving for the Marine Corps. That day was filled with both the greatest joy and sadness I thought I would ever feel. I felt joy that you loved me so much that you sobbed most of the night thinking of me leaving. I feel the deep pain of hurting you too. I remember calling you from bootcamp and hearing your voice for the first time in months. The total rush of happiness and love that I heard from your voice is still with me today when I remember it. There are many more things I want to share with you again but I don’t have the time right now. I am making time for now on to keep our love stronger then ever

[Sourinthemind]

Very touching. I believe that life is really about this kind of self exploration and self realization, and then having someone to share it with.

[decadecadeca]

My test level dropped just reading that. I now have to go shoot a gun, drink a beer, scratch my nutsack and fart in the fan. Just to reclaim some manliness.

[johnstephenson]

Originally posted by decadecadeca
My test level dropped just reading that. I now have to go shoot a gun, drink a beer, scratch my nutsack and fart in the fan. Just to reclaim some manliness.