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Profound

On a daily basis I feel as though I should have something profound to say.

My feelings on a daily basis are certainly profoundly amazing; profoundly happy; and profoundly thankful.

And I've said previously on other blog posts that I recognize that my readers are probably tiring of me gushing about how amazing my man is and how in love with him I am.

Unapologetic as it may seem I still seem to feel profoundly happy; profoundly thankful; and profoundly in love with this man, who shows me, daily, that he loves spending time with me and wants to be with me.  Month by month and week by week, as time passes, I see more of him each week.

We are knitting together understandings about our lives; our families; the things we love and the things we hate; our dreams and our disappointments.

I think the best of all is that I believe we each feel seen and safe and understood by the other in a world that, by and large, doesn't otherwise do that for us.

Whatever else was pulling him other directions in the earlier months of our relationship is behind us. And even in those months I knew-- I knew literally from the first night I met him-- that we would be us, and we would be here, where we are right now, and where we're heading together now.

Profound or not for you, this is absolutely profound for me, in a world where, previously, life got sucked into a tiny little vacuum of sadness for so many years. 

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