Jen and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary today.

It doesn't seem like that long ago that we met...but my life before seems a long time ago, like when I was a kid. Before, I lived somewhere but I didn't have a home. I wasn't lonely, but I wasn't in love. This way is better.

I love you Jen. You help me be a better person. You help me learn more about myself and the world around me. You let me love you even though I am clumsy sometimes, or silly or wrong. Your skin is from a fairytale, delicate rose pink and petal smooth. You still and always make me shaky when we kiss. You are so smart and so funny and the cleverest person I've ever met. I love the things you say and I can't wait for a lifetime more of hearing you say them. Sometimes I wake up in the night, afraid. But you're right there, breathing quiet and even and you hold me and I align my breaths with yours and slide back into dreaming, safe. I love you sounds generic. I love you I need you I want you I desire you I admire you I require you I rejoice in you I...I'm yours.

And you're mine. My love, my girlfriend, my one true, and in my heart if not legally, very very much forever my wife.