As Long As I Am With You

My Darling…
A day with you is more valuable than a hundred with anyone else. I don’t care if we’re poor and have just enough to survive. As long as I am with you my life will always be filled with riches.

From “The Diaries of Adam & Eve” by Mark Twain
poor-couple-holds-hands EDITAfter all
these years,
I see that
I was mistaken
about Eve
in the beginning;
it is better to live
outside
the Garden
with her
than inside it
without her.

My Everything

My Love…
You are my best friend, my shoulder to lean on, the one person I know I can count on. You’re the love of my life, you’re my one and only, you’re my everything. Sharing life with you is the sweetest thing I’ve ever known.

Television personality, fashion designer, and author Lauren Conrad
5-things-that-every-man-wants-in-his-wifeLove
is
not a
maybe
thing,
you know
when you
love
someone.

Always Will

My Love…
We have been through hell in many guises. There have been times I wondered if we’d make it, but we did. Though all that has come at us our love has always prevailed and I believe it always will.

From “Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out” by Pandora Poikilos
middle-aged-coupleEDITThe best
relationships
in our lives
are the best
not because
they have
been the
happiest ones,
they are that
way because
they have
stayed strong
through the
most tormentful
of storms.

Wonderfully Blessed

My Love…
From time to time I am overtaken by a feeling of how wonderfully blessed I am to have you in my life. Everything is so different since we fell in love. Even at the most difficult moments I cherish every second of being loved by you.

American poet and author Coco J. Ginger
ghk-couple-star-gazing-lgnIt is in
this
darkness
that I
have
found
all
light…
somehow
become
so
bright…
a shooting
star
on a
stormy
night.

A Summer Sunday Evening

My Darling…
In my car at sundown on a Summer Sunday evening with the windows open and music playing we made out like teenagers. That’s a memory I will never forget. You touch my heart, mind and soul as no one ever has.

New York Times Bestselling American author Sarah Addison Allen
kissing in the carIt was the best first kiss
in the history of first kisses.
It was as sweet as sugar.
And it was warm,
as warm as pie.
The whole world opened up
and I fell inside.
I don’t know where I was,
but I didn’t care.
I didn’t care
because the only person
who mattered
was there with me.

So Alive

My Darling…
How you have touched me is beyond my ability to realistically explain. I thought the days when a woman like you might want and need me were past. Then you showed up and awakened my heart and soul. I feel so alive.

American blogger, poet and novelist James Browning
The-Truth-About-Older-Men-Younger-WomenYour kisses
are still fresh
on my lips.
Your touch
echoes on
my skin.
I close my eyes
and see you.
I breathe and
smell you again.

‘One’ Made of ‘Two’

My Darling…
The tenderness and understanding of our love is rare. We’ve never had a serious fight! Disagreements, yes, but never have we lost control and emotionally damaged one other. It’s impossible now to separate this ‘one” made of ‘two’.

From “Goddess of the Sea” by American fantasy writer P.C. Cast
tender-loveTrue love
is not
a potion
one person
can swallow
and another
refuse to drink.
It happens
only when
the souls
of two
join
together
to form
one.

Be With Me Always…

My Love…
We breathe the same air and inhabit the same space. It has been you and me together for so long I can not remember life any other way, nor do I want to.

From “Wuthering Heights” by novelist and poet Emily Brontë
tino-soriano-an-elderly-couple-walking-along-a-tree-lined-dirt-roadEDIT2Be with me always.
Take any form.
Drive me mad!
Only do not
leave me
in this abyss,
where I
cannot
find you!
Oh, God!
It is unutterable!
I can not live
without my life!
I can not live
without my soul!

The Beginning

My Love…
Through our ups that never seemed to last long enough and our downs that always lasted too long, I have loved you in a unordinary way. There is nothing common about my feelings for you.

From “Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic” by Esther Perel
12joint-family1LONGLove is a vessel
that contains
both security
and adventure,
and commitment
offers one
of the great
luxuries of life:
time.
Marriage is not
the end
of romance,
it is the beginning.

Finally Home

My Love…
For a long time I was searching, but did not know for what or who. Like a man blinded by darkness I made my way stumbling forward until I ran into you on the sidewalk. Bumping into you literally changed my life.

From “Anna and the French Kiss” by Stephanie Perkins

542665187For
the
two
of
us,
home
isn’t
a place.
It is
a person.
And
we
are
finally
home.