I’m sorry it took so long to see you were exactly right for me. I’m so glad you stuck it out. Your patient flirtations pulled me in around you slowly but surely until I saw you with perfect clarity. I saw the man I want to spend tomorrow with.

You give me your time. You listen to my past with an open mind, but what you care about is my future. You don’t just concern yourself with where we have been before; you are interested in our tomorrow. This is a rare and powerful way to live.

I didn’t trust this at first. I had never experienced anyone making such an extraordinary commitment to me. You asked about planning things far in the future. I said yes, please. For some reason, it seemed so obvious that you would be there, but I still couldn’t fully understand and believe in the love you were offering.

I didn’t see myself as worthy of that kind of love. I didn’t believe I would ever be enough for you. You have spent every day proving me wrong.

Dressed up, dressed down, or not dressed at all, you remind me I am beautiful in a thousand different ways for a million different reasons. The way you listen to me shows me what I have to say is meaningful and important. It has made me believe other people might listen, too. The way you laugh with me is all I need. Yes, your jokes are rather bad and sometimes you even repeat them but they never fail to make me laugh.

I used to question why I met you now, when so much is going on and life is pulling both of us in so many different directions. But this is no kind of temporary love. You came into my life to be my passion, my support and my journey. I came into your life to be yours.

Thank you for seeing me through the times when my own head didn’t make sense to me. In those moments of raw openness, all you are is acceptance and love. Thank you for being the space in which I could discover my beauty for myself. Because of you, I look at myself and finally see a person worthy of being loved deeply and completely. I know I am enough. I am pretty enough, fun enough, talented enough and passionate enough. I am good enough. I am good enough for me.

I know this because when I see myself through your eyes I see beauty and restlessness and wonder. I smile at my sincere silliness and weird dance moves. I listen to my nerdy rants about superhero movies and I laugh at my intelligent, candid self. I observe a woman who is fun and motivated, talented and accomplished, open and kind.

Thank you for helping me see all the things that make me more than enough. I know now I am worthy of a love like ours.