Ø True, unconditional love is waking up in the night holding your partner and smelling her hair as she sleeps, and relaxing in peace knowing there is no place on earth you’d ever rather be.
Ø TUL is sitting across the kitchen table on a dark workday morning, eating breakfast, sipping coffee, talking and smiling, and staring at her ‘til the last minute you have to leave for work, sad because you won’t get to see her for ten hours.
Ø TUL is sitting on a plane next to her, holding her hand, truly happy and at peace because you are not alone…………and you are not with someone else………………you are with her.
Ø TUL is being on vacation and feeling that tingle inside when you enter your hotel room with her.
Ø TUL is you wearing a hockey or football jersey out to a bar or informal restaurant and her not thinking you are a bohemian for doing so.
Ø TUL is her laughing at you peeing off the deck.
Ø TUL is making her laugh so hard snot comes out her nose.
Ø TUL is being on the phone with her and making her laugh so loud the entire office hears her and wonders what is so funny.
Ø TUL is driving through the country in the dark, predawn hours, side-by-side in your pick up truck, with her head on your shoulder.
Ø TUL is laying in bed at night next to her, lost in gazing at her as she sleeps.
Ø TUL is sitting on the front porch all evening listening to each other’s music and sharing a six pack.
Ø TUL is learning her music and really appreciating it and wanting to download as much of it as possible for her.
Ø TUL is going away for the weekend to a football game and really, really missing her.
Ø TUL is having the opportunity to go away for the weekend to a football game, but choosing instead to stay home with her and having waaaaaay more fun.
Ø TUL is going away for the weekend to a football game and exhausting every resource to ensure she can accompany you.
Ø TUL is being able to go to a Sabres game, but instead just sitting at home watching it together on the couch.
Ø TUL is having waaaaaaay more fun staying at home with her than going to games.
Ø TUL is really, truly being proud of her and smiling ear-to-ear when she accomplishes something professionally and wins an award.
Ø TUL is going to a party together and not wanting to leave her side.
Ø TUL is going to a party together and constantly sneaking winks at each other when separated across the room.
Ø TUL is going to a party together and sneaking into an upstairs room or into the car for a quickie.
Ø TUL is her telling you she’s 20 pounds overweight and you couldn’t care less.
Ø TUL is her sending you a photo of her gut and you laughing your head off and realizing that she trusts you so much that she would actually send what she considers an embarrassing photo of herself.
Ø TUL is really, truly caring that she gets home safe at night.
Ø TUL is knowing you would love her just as much if she were confined to a wheelchair.
Ø TUL is laying next to her face in bed at night as she sleeps and believing the sound of her breathing is the most beautiful sound ever in the world.
Ø TUL is knowing that, when she wants to sleep in on a weekend morning, it’s not because she doesn’t want to get up and be with you.
Ø TUL is loving her for being “one of the guys” with you.
Ø TUL is her knowing she can be “one of the guys” with you.
Ø TUL is being completely happy sitting together on the back of your pickup truck out in a quiet, solitary place in the country, drinking beer from cans and listening to each other’s music and never being embarrassed to get up and dance in front of each other, knowing it will bring a huge smile to the other’s face.
Ø TUL is hating it when she gets out of bed in the morning.
Ø TUL is never keeping secrets from the other.
Ø TUL is knowing you can bear your soul to her without embarrassment.
Ø TUL is knowing you can tell her your fears anxiety and that she will not think less of you for doing so.
Ø TUL is being at home with her and forgetting that the world exists.
Ø TUL is really, truly hurting when she is hurting.
Ø TUL is calling her in the late morning on a workday and not being afraid to ask her to swing by for a nooner in the car.
Ø TUL is caring more about pleasing her sexually than being pleasured by her.
Ø TUL is needing no one else but each other.
Ø TUL is going out together, sitting in a bar or restaurant and really, really enjoying just being alone together.
Ø TUL is sitting and just staring at her for hours without getting bored.
Ø TUL is wanting to crush her with a hug every time you lay eyes on her.
Ø TUL is sometimes crying because you love her so much.
Ø TUL is her knowing she can pee in the shower without you doing anything but laughing.
Ø TUL is wanting to walk up behind her at the kitchen sink and just wrap your arms around her and cradle her tight.
Ø TUL is agreeing to disagree…………………..but always appreciating each other’s differing opinion.
Ø TUL is really, always wanting to help her grow as a person, professionally and emotionally.
Ø TUL is always doing everything possible to help build her self-confidence.
Ø TUL is her knowing she can always cry on your shoulder without embarrassment.
Ø TUL is having just as much fun together at a dive bar as at some expensive restaurant.
Ø TUL is loving the fact that she loves to eat and watching her stuff her face.
Ø TUL is being at total peace, holding hands and going on long walks.
Ø TUL is being at total peace sitting together around a little fire in the backyard on a cool evening.
Ø TUL is stopping her and making her roll her window down so you can give her another kiss as she backs out of the driveway to go to work in the morning.
Ø TUL is knowing you could never live without her.
Ø TUL is not caring how small and simple your house is, just as long as you are together in it.
Ø TUL is giving a shit about what only one person in the world thinks of you……………….her.
Ø TUL is believing in her and trusting her so much that, when she disagrees with you, you know she’s right.
Ø TUL is sitting next to her in the car and being enthralled with her, staring at her when she drives.
Ø TUL is knowing you have the absolute coolest, most incredible partner in the world.
Ø TUL is never kissing each other enough.
Ø TUL is her not being afraid to show you a photo of her ugly big toe.
Ø TUL is her sending a photo of a zit on her chin to you on your phone.
Ø TUL is dressing with the other in mind.
Ø TUL is always encouraging each other.
Ø TUL is never having to close the bathroom door.
Ø TUL is knowing the little things that bug her and never doing them.
Ø TUL is looking her in the eyes and telling her, “I Love You and you are the center of my universe!”.
Ø TUL is telling her, “You drive me crazy with love!” and really meaning it.
Ø TUL is aching for each other when you are apart.
Ø TUL is loving each other so much that neither of you ever thinks of anyone else.
Ø TUL is thinking about her all day and driving home as fast as possible to be with her after work.
Ø TUL is knowing the other’s needs and meeting them.
Ø TUL is taking the middle console out of her pickup truck so that you can always sit close together while driving.
Ø TUL is always ensuring the other is included if going out with friends.
Ø TUL is knowing that “we are a family, her and I” when getting together with respective in-laws and extended family.
Ø TUL is knowing that each other is the number one person in each other’s life, even when it comes to “family”.
Ø TUL is knowing I would gladly throw myself in front of a bullet or speeding car and die myself in order to save her life.
In the span of a few hours, this list has become a compulsion for me. I believe this exercise is something that will help me find courage to be myself in the future, never settling until I find my true love. I welcome all comments and input. To be continued.
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