Love letter to My Husband

I don’t think we can ever tell the people closest to us how much we love them. I tell my husband every day I love him but I don’t know if he understands the full depth of my love. He is my best friend, my biggest cheerleader and he’s always there to dry my tears or make me laugh. And let me tell you he is really good that the making me laugh part. He has been a part of my life since 2001 and we’ve been married since 2006. Our relationship and marriage haven’t always been easy and he would be the first to agree with me but we have persevered and over come a lot of obstacles. Many put in place by us. I want nothing more than to make his life happy and whole. I hate to see him worry and most of the time it’s because of me when he does worry.

My health the last 6 years hasn’t been stellar. I was hospitalized in 2012 with double, viral pneumonia and had a Pulmonary Embolism during that 6 day stay and was home another month on oxygen. I had bouts of pneumonia again in twice in 2013 and in 2014. Then this year for Valentine’s Day I got the flu which put me in the hospital for acute respiratory failure. So you can see why he might worry about me a bit much. But he is always by my side and does so many little things for me to make my life easier and I appreciate him so much for those things. His capacity for love, kindness and patience always amaze me.

We recently moved after living in the same house since 2005. It was the house we bought before we were married and we took a drive this weekend and went by the old place. I’m really happy that we moved because it has made both of our lives better, but I have to say as we drove by and saw new people there and that things were already different I got emotional. My husband reached over and patted my leg and just let me know it was okay. I knew it was silly but it felt weird. We went through so much together in that place. We went through the death of his son, my son grew up there and we had lots of happy as well as sad moments. But honestly this man has been a part of my life for 17 years so I know it doesn’t matter where we are as long as we are together.

He does all these little things everyday to tell me he loves me and I appreciate him so much. I only hope that I show him just how much I love him as well. He makes my life so much better and brighter. He has taught me so much about perseverance, about forgiveness and about patience. He has helped me be a better person in so many ways and I only hope that I have helped him in some small way as well. I love you my sweet husband and thank you for being mine.♥