Alyice on April 3rd, 2009

Uncharted Territories

When I met my husband it was like, “kismet”. We both showed up at a dance hall where neither one of us really wanted to be: I, chaperoning my friend’s blind date, and he, accompanying a buddy who didn’t want to go out alone. To this day, he tries to tell everyone that the “crowd” pushed him into me but my friend, her date, and I, saw him scoot his way towards me as he tried to sneak a few glances my way. We had one dance before his friend called upon him to leave. “I have to go,” he said, “He’s my ride, but give me your number and I’ll call you in a few days.”

I didn’t really think he’d call, but I gave him my number. And call he did. We spent the next few weeks on the phone for hours upon hours as we talked about any- and every- thing imaginable. Those first few weeks were nothing more than a blissful blur. Then it happened, our very first date. He insisted on going Dutch then tried to impress my chaperone by buying her a pitcher of beer—and I didn’t even drink alcohol!

Despite his inability to sweep me off my feet romantically, there was something about him that captured my heart. Perhaps it was his refreshingly honest way of telling things like it is, of not being afraid to be himself, of allowing me to be me, of not trying to “make a move” right away. Whatever it was, I was hooked and there was no looking back.

He tells me that from the moment he met me, it was love at first sight. He tells me that after only a few weeks of dating he told his friend that I was the one he was going to marry. He tells me that there was just something about me that felt right.

We fell in love so fast, my head span. Honestly, I couldn’t tell if it was true love or infatuation. Even after the first few years of marriage, I wondered if I really knew what “true love” was and if we even had it. I didn’t have someone to guide me, I didn’t have role models to learn from; all I had was this amazing feeling of knowing that for once in my life I was safe and that someone had my best interests at heart. From then on we have been inseparable. What amazes me about true love is that it seems to withstand any storm life throws your way.

May this greeting card remind you to love without inhibitions, to love as though there were no tomorrow, and to not be afraid of uncharted territories.

Until next time,

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