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Kaliko -> RE: Awareness - He's real...and he's spectacular! (10/10/2015 6:28:41 AM)
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Just updating the thread, I guess, to say we're married now. :) It was a beautiful day with a small group of friends and family. Though he'd already met my mother and my sister, I had a few siblings traveling quite a way to come to the wedding so they could "meet this guy," LOL. It was a ceremony in the garden and then inside for cocktails, good food, even better cake, and Sinatra streaming in the background.
While there are definite challenges with going from being pretty much completely on my own in a long-distance relationship to suddenly being married and 24/7, there are all of these little joys that I knew I was missing and I knew I wanted, but I don't think I had fully realized how much they really meant. Smelling coffee brewing in the morning when I wake up. Feeling him roll over next to me during the night. Resting against him while watching TV on the couch. That midday phone call "Do you need anything on my way home?" And last night, when I came home and was stressed about something at work, he took care of it. He took care of me. For years, I've had no one to turn to at the end of the day when I was feeling like that. Even while he and I have been together, but apart, the time difference and distance meant that I still handled myself relatively independently (though he might say differently....which is why I say "relatively"). But now, ...it was really something to experience laying my unfounded but stressful fear down at his feet and totally turning myself over to giving it up and giving in.
It's been a bit of a leap of faith for both of us, but one that we have never wavered on or second-guessed. It's kind of cool that we're still making small discoveries about each other even after the wedding rings are on. (He's only recently learned of my affinity for picking up castoff furniture from the side of the road. Thank goodness he finds it endearing. And I have only recently learned that for an Australian, he's surprisingly intolerant of the heat.) I'm genuinely excited to see what tomorrow brings for us. :)
(Apologies for the sickeningly sweet post. I claim newlywed privilege.)
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