After meeting you, I had no idea how much you would mean to me now. I'm the opposite of sappy, rather unaffectionate, and really really weird most of the time. But somehow you didn't care. You sit there while I complain about every little thing, you laugh when I make even the slightest bit of a funny joke, and you never fail to put the biggest smile on my face.

Before we met, I obviously knew what it meant to love someone, but I never truly experienced it. I don't mean for this to be overly sappy, but it's true. You showed me what it means to care about someone's happiness just as much as my own. You showed me what it means to miss someone after 5 minutes, and to be comfortable enough to split two entire pizzas.

The surprises and cute dates can't even begin to describe all the amazing things you do for me. No one has ever cared about me the way that you do. You take what's best for me first and even put me before yourself at times.

We talk about the craziest things, not to mention all the weird things we do together. It's nice to know that I'll always have someone there to protect me, and even nicer to know that you'll feed me or buy me Starbucks when my attitude gets a little too high. You are always the reason I feel better about myself when I'm feeling down, even if I give you a hard time about it. When we fight, we laugh it out at the end because of how dumb our reasons were for fighting.

You never fail to try to brighten my worst days, or make my brightest days even better. All the little things we talk about mean the most; planning our vacations, all the dogs we could have, or where we're going to go to dinner next. Our insane "Netflix and Chill" sessions of actually binge-watching a show and eating is one of my favorite things we do.

So thank you. Thank you for teaching me how to love someone for everything that they are, and for teaching me how to love myself. Thank you for being 100% you all of the time, and for accepting me through all the mistakes I may have made. You truly are my best friend, and no matter where life takes us you will always mean so much to me.

As Taylor Swift once said, "You are the best thing that's ever been mine"

I love you!

-- your girlfriend