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What made me know he was the one? i don't know. i just did. i absolutely knew it with every fiber of my being that it was right. Through thick and thin i never once questioned if it was right for me. i KNEW he was, and is. There were no doubts. That doesn't mean it was perfect...we each had to do some adapting and accepting, but that's to be expected since we are essentially two seperate human beings.

How are things now? i could not be happier, and i know how very lucky i am to have found my One. We know it every single day that this is where we were meant to be. After 22 years, we are still madly in love like teenagers. Everything i could have ever possibly hoped for in a man, he provides, as i do for him. We really do live for eachother, and always have the other person's best intrests at heart. We understand that what affects one affects the other, and we are eachother's best friend, lover, confidant and protector.

i didn't know we were the exception for a long time. We met when i was 14 and he was 15. There's no way to know what " forever " really means at that age, or how to handle the responsibilities that come along with such a thing. It wasn't until i got older and i started looking at other people's lives that i understood that there are people in this world who will go thier entire lives without finding what we already had. To me, that was significant and told me that i would be completely stupid to not be very grateful for what i had/have and to this day we both take every opportunity to let the other know how much this relationship means to us. We don't let the other ever feel unappreciated, unwanted, or unheard. We are very affectionate, and are completely comfortable letting eachother be who it is that we really are. There's no pretenses here. Nothing to have to fake. No fear of rejection or feeling unwanted or not good enough. We simply found a way to be totally at ease with who we each are...and that's the key.