Woggle Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I admit an ulterior motive in trying to get up the courage to put my wife's name fully on the house but these kind of threads always make me feel better. Everybody who is truly happy in their relationships let's post about it. If you asked me in 2003 after I finalized my divorce if I could ever imagine being happily married and with a great woman I would have laughed in your face but I found a woman who is anything a man can dream of. She is gorgeous but she is also just a genuinely good person who shows everyday how much she truly loves and cares for me and makes me want to be a better man. 4
Pyro Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 Marriage is pretty bad ass having a SO that you can fully trust and can trust you back. It also helps that we don't engage in any BS power struggle games. 3
Janesays Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I adore my man. I admire and respect him so much. Just his existence makes my life better. I'd do pretty much anything to see him smile. 3
quankanne Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 recently, he kissed me goodnight and then told me that the last 20 years were the best years of his life. I asked, "even though?" (meaning recent job losses, tighter finances, etc) and he said he was happy knowing he was married to his soul mate and best friend. And it's humbling, because he's not the kind that says romantic crap ... God definitely blessed me when he brought him into my life :love: 3
Silly_Girl Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I never believed I could get it all in one relationship. Always a compromise. And love-dust can get in your eyes and stop you seeing things clearly enough... I am very happy with someone who I trust with all my heart, both with my feelings, fears and fantasies but also to be loyal to me, as I will him. I feel so proud of him and we have so much fun in the most mundane of situations 2
CarrieT Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 Well, Woggle... I was going to post this a month from now, but I'll gloat now. I came to this over four years ago when I was fretting and worrying about a 2 1/2 year relationship with a younger man - a man, I might add, whom I almost cheated with while in another relationship. But I ended that 12-year dysfunctional relationship to be with the guy I thought was prince charming and who ended up an emotionally abusive alcoholic who was setting up a prostitute as his OW in a foreign country. After ending that relationship, it took several years of OLD, one-night-stands, FWBs and other nonsensical trysts on my part to find the guy who is seriously the best relationship I've ever had in my life. Why was I going to wait until next month? Because it will be our one-year anniversary and that is a huge milestone for me considering where I came from and where this relationship is going. In the past, I have dismissed guys with children and yet I walked into the potential of this relationship knowing he has three pre-teens 50% of the time. The only "arguments" we get into are when we are driving in heavy traffic and we each try to back-seat drive for each other (and we admit that we both do it). Those tiffs are short-lived as soon as we reach our destinations and are infrequent. This man knows of my extensive sexual past and accepts me wholly and entirely with no retroactive jealousy or recriminations. Yes, we met on a sexually-based website, but the relationship is far beyond the physical: we attend air shows, farmers markets, operas, and symphonies. He likes that I am a Marine Corps brat and that we both appreciate war movies. I adore his intellect and his kink; he is kind and generous and affectionate. He knows when I am sad or worried and takes care of me. I know when he is overwhelmed and I take care of the minor things in his life to make his path easier. We fully complement each other like no relationship I have ever had. I honestly believe this will be my last and best adult relationship and I am looking forward to growing old with this man; to travel the world with him or stay home and cook his dinner. Yep, I'm smitten - but because I am coming up on a year into this, feel the honeymoon period is over and yet we are still blissfully happy and looking forward to the future. I've met Prince Charming for real. 4
quankanne Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 We fully complement each other like no relationship I have ever had. so true ... it's amazing how well you seem to fit together with this person when most of your life, you thought, "no way is that possible!" Congratulations, Carrie ... here's to a lifelong romance with your honey!
threebyfate Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 He's adorable. Imagine a big, masculine man, comfortable in the courtroom as well as the bedroom, who loves to grill and use power tools. As many of you know, I'm pregnant and due next month. At my last appointment, my ob stated that I was carrying quite low. This freaked out my manly husband enough that he's elicited my promise not to travel or walk too far from home without someone else, in case our baby decides to come early. So now, I can only walk laps around our block for exercise. In this way, he's fussier than a brooding hen. Role reversal anyone? But how can I be upset since this is his way to show he loves both our baby and myself. If he didn't have to go to work, I swear he'd follow me around the house. 1
TigerCub Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I feel so lucky to be with someone like my boyfriend. He's such a genuine guy, he's so sweet, funny, romantic and fantastic and I know he's got my back no matter what. He inspires me to be more selfless and giving like him, he makes me want to give him 1000x back what he gives to me. We're moving in together at the end of September. I'm moving into his house. Right now he's doing all these renovations and changes so that the house would be more of what I'd like. He's working so hard and trying so hard to do things that would make me happy and I'm so touched by it all. I've never felt so important to someone as he makes me feel. Not only has he always made room for me in his life, now he's making room for me in his home and customizing it so it would feel like mine. I just want to do the same for him and make him as happy as he makes me. I could go on forever... We make each other laugh and giggle, we trust and confide in each other, we do sweet things for each other, and I just can't get enough of him.:love: 2
serial muse Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I love the little intimate routines that add up to life together... the way that he kisses me and whispers "bye, sweetheart" as we're heading to work the way we hang out together in the kitchen while cooking so that we can debrief about our days while chopping and drinking beer the way we ask each other..."so what did you obsess about today"? cuddling together on the couch while making fun of crappy Lifetime movies ...I don't know, I recognize that individually those things probably all sound minor and silly but I just love spending time and sharing my life with him. 1
anne1707 Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 We have been through so much, enough to end a marriage, but we got through it. How can I not love man who is so strong, so forgiving, so loving. I love the way we share our little in-jokes I love the way we sometimes finish each other's sentences (cheesy I know, but who cares) I love the way his voice sounds when we talk to each other in bed when the lights are out I love the way he makes me want to be a better person (for me, not just for him) I love the way he initially did not want a cat but knowing I did, he prompted us to get one (and boy, does he fuss over them now ) I love doing nothing and everything with him :love: 3
quankanne Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 I love the way we sometimes finish each other's sentences (cheesy I know, but who cares) :love::love: a bit scary to realize someone knows you that well, but also pretty neat, because it's like you've got your own little club that'll never have more than you or him as members :love: something else I love and admire about my husband is that he's been really good to my family, especially my parents when they were going down-hill healthwise. He stayed behind from my gramma's funeral to take care of my mom, who'd gotten sick, just because he didn't want her to be in the house alone; he was very supportive of my drives cross-state 2-3 times a month must to be with her when she was dying; when my daddy was dying and two of my stingy-ass sibs refused to help care for him, husband told my sister not to worry, that he would go down to Dad's every so often just to give us a break, then invited my dad to come live with us so he could care for him full-time. I think this is when I realized just how deep his love is, by showing how important those things were to him because they were important to me. I got real lucky with my 'Bama boy ... 2
Badsingularity Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 My wife and I are very happy together. 5 years together and a few months married and things only seem to get better and better. 1
Lauriebell82 Posted August 25, 2012 Posted August 25, 2012 Let's see, my husband is a little crazy and OCD, but I love him and don't know what I would do without him. He is a wonderful father and just seeing him with our son makes my heart melt. The thing I love the most about my husband is that he helped give me my son, who is the best thing that has ever happened to me. 1
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