41. “The moment I knew I was going to ask her to marry me was the moment I accepted that I could live without her, I just didn’t want to. It was that moment that I recognized being with her was a mutual choice, not a dependency. I had the self-awareness to know I could lead a happy life, but, shit, this woman made everything happier. I’m one of the most genuinely lucky people. I am not the wealthiest, best looking, or most popular, but I deeply, deeply love my wife. She is the center of my universe. It’s not because she’s given me this fairy tale of what marriage is ‘supposed to be like.’ It’s because she’s given me something that’s real, tangible, and I can fight for. Through ups and downs, arguments and laughter, sickness and health, I realize that I may not always like her, but I deeply love her — and that love is not based on ONE but all things. Every day, I’d ask her to marry me, and every day, I’d marry her again.
“It’s amazing when you see the woman you love day after day, year after year, and you keep seeing the same person you first met. I shit you not, every single day, I have THIS revelation, no matter how amazing or frustrating of a day I have.”
