23 Dec - After All These Years & Many More Ahead

Through it all, he has been my pillar of strength. My safe harbour when everything else felt uncertain.

Mindfulness teaches us that love isn't just a feeling - it's showing up, again and again. Twenty-nine years of choosing each other. Of standing steadfast when life demanded we prove our commitment. Some days meant grand gestures. Most days meant the quiet choice to stay, to support, to believe in us.

He's been there through the hardest chapters - the family pain nobody else understood, the moments when I questioned everything. He listened. He held space. He reminded me I wasn't alone, that I was seen, that I was loved exactly as I am.

Gratitude deepens when we're fully present to what we've been given. My adventure buddy has walked beside me through valleys I thought would swallow me whole. Together, we found our way through.

I cherish all that we have. All that we've survived and celebrated and built together. The laughter and the tears. Every single piece has woven us into who we are now.

The present moment holds both past and future. I'm grateful for everything we've been through - because it brought us here. And I'm already looking forward to whatever comes next. More years. More adventures. More standing together. More choosing each other, every single day.

Thank you, my love, for being my steadfast companion. For being the strength I could lean on. For seeing me, believing me, choosing me - for thirty-five years and counting.

Here's to many more years together. Whatever comes, we'll face it side by side.

May you (all who reads this) find love that stands steadfast through your storms. And if you already have it, may you pause today to feel gratitude for the precious relationship that holds you.

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🌷 from Linda's desk at Tulip Meadows 🌷