When you have a second chance at love you do things differently. After Steve passed my main focus was raising my children. I would often pray that God would send me someone when the time was right. Almost ten years later the timing was right. I was scared and I questioned God often. While Brian and I had met almost 19 years prior, the time was not right. God had to put a few more pieces together for our worlds to collide.
What started out as two people killing time during Covid with text conversations, it quickly became a friendship that turned into oh so much more. From the beginning we have been fully transparent with one another. This created a strong foundation on which we have built our relationship
From the beginning our relationship has come easy. I attribute this to us both having loved and lost. When you go through something so traumatic it changes you as a person and changes how you view the world. You reflect deeply on how you would change things if you could and that causes you to do better. Love is not a feeling but a verb and you must show that love each and everyday.
While this is not how we thought our lives would unfold we have embraced what God had laid before us. Steve and Debbie are brought up often. We share stories and memories and honor them. We truly feel blessed to love again and are so thankful we found each other. What a blessing it is to love again.
Today marks one year since we said “I do”. It’s been a wonderful year growing together and making memories. Often times Brian will say “I love you”. My reply is simply “I know”. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t truly know how much he cares about and loves me. While we both know that one day one of us will go through the excruciating pain of losing again, we know that to love again is well worth what we may endure.
Here’s to many more years of loving, learning and growing.
