I popped out to the grocery store tonight to pick up some milk and my precious hazelnut-flavoured Coffeemate. As I pulled the diesel-wagon around through our subdivision, I sang along to a Bonnie Raitt song on the radio. I Can’t Make You Love Me is the title and as I listened I realized that song is pretty much the theme song for the relationship I had previous to the one I am now in with Graham. In that relationship I was needy and insecure and sucky and would not say “I love you” to that guy if my life depended on it, because I knew that odds were, he wouldn’t say it back, and that was just too big a risk for me to take.
That song made me think about how lucky I am not to be in those kinds of relationships anymore, how lucky I am to have a partner to walk through this life with who is so loving and kind and tells me he loves me fourteen times a day. And as I drove up our street, there he was, in the driveway, smiling and waving, and dancing. Yes, dancing that same funny little dance he does, regardless of the music being played, and I laughed with real joy in my heart as I pulled up to the house, because that dancing fool is all mine, ‘til death do us part.
Ah, what a great post. We’ve all dated That Guy, I think, and it just makes us appreciate our soul mates all the more, right? (I have to think there was an upside to being so miserable …)
PS: Tagged you for a meme at my place ….
Aw. You made me get all mooshy.
Amen. Amen. Aaaaamen!
Ah, that gave me sweet chill bumps. I’m a sucker for love. I feel the EXACT way about Mr. OMSH
And? I had FORGOTTEN that Bonnie Raitt song, but I love her and am now going to iTunes for the download. I also love her “Let’s Give’em Something to Talk About” – weeeee … THAT is a fun song. (that might not even be the title, but in my head it is.