One year. It feels like yesterday in a lot of ways, and it also feels like forever…like we are finally living the life I think we were always meant to live. I can’t remember a time I didn’t love her.

I haven’t been able to come up with adequate words for much of this Love, which is frustrating because I have words for just about everything. I thought that by now I’d have at least sorted through this day one year ago well enough to describe what it felt like to fall in love in a doorway in an instant with somebody I’d known for a decade. But here we are, and I’m still just as awestruck and wordless as I was then…maybe moreso. The magic and wonder of just getting to wake up together nearly does me in every single morning.

One thing I do know for sure is that I’m better because of her in so many ways. There have been hard days for sure, and there has been more heartbreak than either of us imagined there would be. For me (and I think she would agree), this has been a year of so much healing. Some of it happened easily and some of it was more like intense physical therapy, but my heart is so much more whole today than it was a year ago. Even knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t change a thing about the past year.

Thanks for loving me, Amber.  There’s no place I’d rather be than with you and nobody I’d rather share this crazy life with. I’ll take every hard thing, every tear that’s fallen and more, if it means we get to live this life together. I’d choose this (and you) over and over again. (Also, we take a lot of selfies.)
xoxo, k