Dear future husband,

I'll never say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for coming into my life when I needed you most.

Thank you for being patient with me as I learned how to accept your love and open myself up to you, for teaching me how to trust and for loving me enough to put my broken pieces back together.

Thank you for accepting me, despite all of my anxieties and craziness. And thank you for loving me in the times when I'm not very lovable.

Thank you for believing in me and supporting me, for encouraging my dreams and pushing me to be the best version of myself.

Thank you for showing me what true love looks like and for making the commitment to spend the rest of your life with me.

I'll also never say "I'm sorry" enough, though I'll certainly try to.

I'm sorry for all the times I've driven you crazy with my anxiety and being so high strung, through you'll tell me that it doesn't.

I'm sorry for the times I get needy and clingy. I'm so glad to have found such a great man that I sometimes hold on a little too tightly in fear of losing you.

Also, I'm sorry that I say "I'm sorry" so often.

I went through many broken hearts and failed attempts at love to find you. At one point, I lost hope that you even existed.

I was told to change things by myself, criticized for the ways I show love because others didn't understand them the way you do. The very things that other men hated about me, you not only tolerate but love.

I've waited for you, I've cried for you, I've prayed for you. I prayed for a partner and best friend to love me, to support me, to accept me, and you fulfill every expectation and are even better than I imagined.

I am so excited to spend my life with you. I look forward to going on adventures with you, making memories with you, spending holidays with your family. I can't wait to have a life full of laughter with you.

But for now, I must wait. And I will do so patiently, even when that's hard to do, because I already love you. I love everything that you are to me and everything that you have yet to be. I've already waited 25 years to meet you, and I can continue to wait a little longer.

After all, it's a short time to wait for someone I'll spend the rest of my life with.

When that day comes, I'll do everything in my power to keep you and to make you happy because I know my life will be happier with you in it.