Love to me means two people who have been together for 50 years and still look into each other's eyes as if it was their first date. Love means being able to sit in companiable silence without a hint of boredom, love means being able to finish each others thoughts and sentences. To be thinking the same thing at the same time, you're so in tune to each other. Above all, love means trust, that you can put your life into this person's hands and his into yours, and know you will both be safe. Nothing gets through me to you and vice versa.
I'm standing because I think that was what I had with my H. Despite the micro MLC eight years ago, we had managed to regain our stride and wavelength. I believe in the man that I married. I understand that, divorce or no, this is not that man. I have quit so much standing for H and marriage as I am standing for myself and my family. I have to be the strong one for them now.
