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“Falling in love with you…” Deacon shakes his head. “I never saw it coming. I never saw you coming. But there you were, so open and honest and vulnerable, all the things that were so foreign to me; all the reasons that made me want to stay. In your orbit, in your life. Once I had you by my side, there was nowhere else in this world I wanted to be.”
“And I know there have been times it’s been bittersweet and painful,” I continue. “But you make sure I know our life together is worth it. “There aren’t enough words in the English language to convey just how grateful I am for you choosing me, for loving me and allowing me to love you.” I bring our interlaced hands to my lips and kiss his fingers. “You continue to be the steady rhythm of my heartbeat. You are worthy and you are special, and I’ve never been more grateful to call someone mine.”
“This is where I want to start and end every day. With you.”
It’s like you lay eyes on your child for the first time and, on autopilot, your mind and heart shift and change to accommodate and you’re no longer the man who loves another man unconditionally. You’re now the man who loves another man unconditionally and will lay your life at the feet of his family to love and adore and protect and to serve.
“Being a husband and a father has taught me that I love the people in my life unconditionally. Your love has always been conditional.”
It’s brutal and aggressive and so very desperate, but after fifteen years together, ten of those married, eight of them with two kids, I’m just grateful that every part of him still wants every part of me.
