Valetine's Day Guest Blog Post

The following is a guest post by my sweetheart and the love of my life, on this fine Valentine's Day, 2021. I hope to have more guest posts from my pretty girl in the future.

Today is Valentine’s Day!

As you can see by the sweet blog my man posted on this day, in the next life I’ll share his name and his ten babies. I hope they look like him. And I hope they look like me. (We’re pretty people ;-) But more than anything, I hope we find each other in that life. This one has been so good together that I sense I’ll always be searching for him through subsequent incarnations. And, although today is Valentine’s Day...the greeting card industry-made up-made to make millions of single people feel bad for not having “someone” day...(did you know this “holiday” may take its name from Rome in the 3rd century AD when Emperor Claudius II executed two men (both named Valentine) on February 14th of different years and they subsequently became Catholic martyrs???...) Anyway, I diverse. I’m not a guest here to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I’m here to follow up on the post before today’s. The post that referenced an almost seven year memory that hadn’t been spoken of since the words were spoken. In a parked car. In, if my memory serves me, a cemetery driveway. The conversation of “what if we fall in love?” And my answer of, “I’m sure we will.” The question the reader may be asking at this point is, “how long did take?” The answer is, “not long at all.” This man showed me very early on what he was capable of: being a gentleman at all times, being fun, lighthearted and funny! Of being seriously brilliant and respectful and SUCH a good listener. Of being sweet and kind and thoughtful almost everyday...not just on holidays. And he’s capable of being a lover so fierce and innovative and dedicated, that he takes my breath away for hours and sometimes days after our lovemaking has come to its climax ;-) But, the question remains....how long did it take me to fall in love with him? The answer is, I fell in love with him in the time it took for him to download my favorite book (not yet allowed to be in digital form) from a Russian website when I couldn’t find my well-worn copy. And in the time it took for him to share with me the song he played years before upon bringing his twin boys “home” to live with him. And in the time it took for him to text me the sweetest poetry throughout the days that came after with messages that he was thinking of me. Thats the long answer to ‘how long.’ The short answer could easily have been “immediately.” I think my soul recognized him. I feel he’s been mine before. And I believe he will be again.