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“You deserve your flowers every day. I had to play catch up, but there is a flower in here for every single day you’ve been a part of my life. I love you, Jorja. I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life loving you. I know I haven’t always been deserving, but I’ll spend eternity showing you that giving me a second chance wasn’t a mistake. Will you marry me, Ja?”
Once she moved in with me, I paid it off and took over the rest of her bills. With her traveling so much, I didn’t want her to worry about a thing. While she had access to all of my accounts, she was free to do what she wanted with her money. That mostly consisted of food because my baby could fuck up a good plate. Right now she was going to town on this breakfast spread.
“Look at you on top of things!” “You know I got you, baby. Hurry up and finish eating so we can get going.”
You humbled my ass though, Ms. You Gon’ Feel That Shit In Your Chest. You were trying to give me a heart attack.”
“I’m not worried about the cost. I want you to be happy. We only get these memories once, and I want you to have the best. You deserve that, Ja. When I promised your mama and grandma I’d take care of you, I meant that in every aspect. That means your needs, your wants, and your heart’s desires too. If I can make it happen, it’s yours.”
“I love you, Jorja. I made a mistake in not embracing that when I first felt it, but I promise to embrace it every day for the rest of our lives. You’re the best thing to ever happen to me, baby. My life is so much better because of you. For that, you can have the world.”
“That’s it, baby,” he whispered in my ear. “You deserved that one for looking so muthafucking good tonight. Let it go so I can take you back to the room and you ride this dick.” Fuck. Me.
I love you. I know I’ll never stop trying to be the man you deserve. I know I will fight my way back to you every single time because you are my heart, Jorja. My soul. Living without you taught me that I never want to put myself through that again. I belong to and with you. Nobody but God himself can tell me any different.”
You decided that you wanted to be together, and you worked to make things better between you. You learned to talk to each other and not at each other. And you learned to listen. That is the key to a healthy relationship. If you don’t listen, you can’t communicate. Now, I don’t wanna start preaching but if you don’t remember anything else I say, remember this. Love is like a fire. It sparks. It’s quick to heat up but it’s also quick to go out. If you want a fire to continue to burn, you have to tend to it. You have to feed it for it to grow. Feed your marriage. Pour as much into each other as
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the family you marry into is just as important as the person you marry.
“Are you sure you don’t wanna back out?” he jested, using my words against me. “I’m positive. Like you said, you’ll have to kill me to get rid of me now.” “The only thing I have intention of killing is that pussy after these vows.”
On this day, I vow to always give you the best of me. I vow to love, honor, and protect you with my life. I vow to never put a shadow of a doubt in your mind that I don’t want to be here because I want that, Jorja. I need you like I need air to breathe and food to sustain me.
“You, my love…” His voice began to crack. “You are everything to me, and I thank God every day that you gave me a chance to love you the way that you deserve to be loved. You provide me with love that is pure. Smiles handcrafted by your presence. Warmth that was completely foreign to me before you. I love you, you hear me? I love you today, tomorrow, and always.”
I thank you for creating a space where I can unapologetically be myself and you love me anyway. You are my peace. It is in your arms that I feel the safest. It is in your heart that I’ve built my home.
“Today, I vow to be the best wife, mother, and partner. I vow to always stand ten toes down behind you, the same as you do for me. I vow to always be open, honest, and vulnerable. I vow to love you harder in the rough times because that is when we will need it most. You are my heart… my soul… my gift of love, and I will never take that for granted.”
