I’ve been printing these letters for the last fourteen days in honor of Valentine’s, love and caring. I’ve posted letters from military spouses, from couples looking to be engaged and from widows who miss their spouses. I’ve posted letters from widows who’ve found love once again. This has been a terrific project and a great deal of fun for me. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have.
My Personal Valentine
Dear Scott,
I wanted to write you a letter in the same vein as those letters that have been published here over the last few days. While I’ve never counted Valentine’s as a particularly important holiday, it is a great deal of fun and it gives us a chance to tell our loved ones how we feel and to celebrate love as it is.
Our marriage has never been an easy one; there were always adjustments to be made on either side. But from the first day we met, you’ve possessed the remarkable gift to make me laugh. When things have been hard or tough or I’ve felt pretty trapped by circumstance, I’ve relied on this particular gift more than I’ve ever admitted.
I’ve said this many times before, I think you make me a better person. You’ve taught me how to accept people for exactly what they are and to not always drop my own expectations on them. I am hard on myself, harder perhaps than others, but you’ve always expressed your pride and your admiration for what I do and how I do it.
When we disagree, you listen – even when my arguments do not compel you, you listen to them and you respect them. We’ve even been able to respectfully disagree on a subject and not have it affect our love, our friendship and our relationship beyond enhancing it. When times got tough a couple of years ago and I really wondered if we were going to make it as a couple – you never stopped being my friend and I never stopped being yours.
Our friendship sustains the rest of our relationship – it gives us the hope for always recovering from what is bad and celebrating what is good. In December, our trip to the emergency room and yours to the operating room brought a great deal of this home to me. I sat there in that emergency room waiting for your test results and watching you try to sleep. You were pale, exhausted and for the first time in our shared lives – you looked so helpless.
I played out a lot of scenarios in my mind that night and the only one that had a happy ending was the one where you got better to continue sharing our life with me. I have every intention of growing old with you – because you will make me laugh and you will help me to enjoy it and I can’t imagine life any other way. It may sound trite and cliché, but you’re my best friend and I love being yours and being your wife. Thanks for always being there for me – in the good and in the bad.
I love you.
Heather
Letters of Love
You write these letters of love for the ones you love. Do you have a letter of love that you want to write to your spouse? Whether they are here in the states, sleeping next to you night after night or far away in another state or another country. Do you have a letter of love that you would like to share?
Letters of Love are a part of our 14 Days of Romance here in the Marriage Blog, we hope you enjoy them!
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