How do you thank someone for being the love of your life?
How do you thank someone for truly seeing you and bringing out your best self – your authentic, brave, beautiful, intrepid, generous, creative self?
How do you thank someone for loving you because of – not despite – your myriad of contradictions, flaws, and infuriating habits?
How do you thank someone for seeing the wondrous possibilities, even when you can’t?
How do you thank someone for trusting their heart to you, for letting you see them in their most vulnerable moments?
How do you thank someone for believing in you when self-doubt asserts itself, for championing your efforts as much as your successes?
How do you thank someone for holding you when the pain is extreme – in body, soul, or mind?
How do you thank someone for sharing an in-joke with just a look, for making you laugh so hard you can’t breathe?
How do you thank someone for sharing their family, their childhood memories, their oldest friends with you, making you feel like you’ve always belonged?
How do you thank someone for challenging your mind, for questioning things you’ve always believed, for the mental jousting that makes for great fun?
How do you thank someone for loving your family, for welcoming them, for knowing they must sometimes come first?
How do you thank someone for being your home?
How do you thank someone for being the love of your life?
Love it…..sadly Ben is in the US for Valentine’s Day but I’m sure you have each other in your hearts!
Karen L Curnow
Always
That gave me goose bumps xx
Thank you. x
You thank them by reciprocating… being yourself and loving them unconditionally. The ways may differ, but the motives really don’t, and that’s perfectly okay.
After 55 years of being around the love of my life — the first four as friends — your list sounds about right to me. 😀