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Once Upon A Time we were new to each other as a couple. Got all kinds of feels going on. All kinds of tingles. All kinds of adventures. All kinds of hours of talking. 😉

Once Upon A Time we were a pretty focused pair. She had a job. I had a job. We were dating. And that was pretty much it. So we were all about each other. 🥳😎☺️

Once Upon A Time we had our first Valentine's Day. Which was a pretty big deal since it feels like straight up validation that I, in fact, had a girlfriend. That she, in fact, had a boyfriend (which she told me later she wasn't looking for). 🤔🤨

Valentine's Day was a fun sort of approval. An official stamp on our couplehood. I don't know why that would be... that's just how it felt. 😘

Of course later you get married and that. Is the official stamp on your couplehood. Valentine's Day was just the first. 🙂

Nowadays, when I think back on getting married, when I think about our wedding day on each wedding anniversary day... I think about the actual day we got married, the days leading up to it, the days following after it. It's more celebration of this massively intense experience we remember. 😍

Valentine's Day isn't like that, though. There's not an event we celebrate. There's a love we celebrate. Our love. As it grows over days, months, years, and decades. It's a helluva thing. 😁

Once Upon A Time we were a pretty focused pair. She had a job. I had a job. We were dating. That really was it so we could be all kinds of about each other.

Of course we're not those ADHD young adults we used to be, footloose and fancy-free. We're adultier ADHD adults with a mortgage and business licenses. 😐

You know when you're young you say all kinds of things about your love because the future's a blank canvas and you can imagine all kinds of awesomeness that's gonna be painted on that canvas. For us, we've got a lot of our canvas painted. And there are plenty of things I know for a fact. Plenty that I know from actual experience.

So when I say she's the love of my life...

I mean she's the Love.

Of my life.

For real.

And when I say she's my Rock...

Yeah.

Thirty-one years of living this life together together is all the proof I need.

She's dynamic. She's a passionate beauty. She is off the charts smart and a blindingly fast thinker. She has a multi track mind and a relentlessly creative imagination.

I say she's my Valentine, though, and the word doesn't seem to do her justice even as today it's pretty much the only word at my disposal.

Plus, it's what all the cards and candies say. 😕

Once Upon A Time we celebrated our first Valentine's Day. Today and in the next few days we celebrate maybe our thirty-third, thirty-fourth Valentine's Day. A time during which I get to reflect on how breathtakingly lucky I am to love this one woman for decades and be a better man for it. ❤️❤️❤️

From our very first kiss, our couplehood's been this grand adventure, this edge-of-our-seats expedition, this life together painted on a massive canvas in all the colors we can imagine and a few we'd rather not.

I realize those words conjure a sort of Jackson Pollock vibe but still.

It's a helluva thing.

You know?

☺️

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