Michaela’s Muses: Love in so many words

Stereotypically, love means two people fall in love instantly. Personally, I don’t believe in love at first sight. Life is not a Disney movie.

But I am lucky to have found the person who completes me so early in life. It took a while for us to get there, though.

He lived two blocks away from me throughout our elementary, middle and high school educations. We rode the same bus. We had the same friends at times. Sometimes we had the same teachers.

He was a few feet away from me our whole lives but we didn’t get together until senior year of high school. Even then, it took our friends telling us we belonged together for us to actually get together.

We had both been through some pretty heartbreaking relationships before that and were timid to the idea of a new one. About four months in, we had a talk. That talk lasted a few hours. We laid down everything we wanted out of life right then and there. When we were going into that conversation I thought it was going to be a breakup. He thought the same thing. Why would we think anything else? I mean, all of my relationships ended at four months. He had the same experience.

Since then, we have been together without any doubt that our relationship would make it.

Last September, on our five-year anniversary, we tied the knot and my best friend became my husband. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we never got together, but then I remember that if it had happened any other way, we wouldn’t be happy.

I can honestly tell you that I don’t remember what life was like before we became an item.

That being said, and while I celebrate my love with him today, on Valentine’s Day, love is more than just one day. By all means, buy them flowers and chocolates or whatever the fad is these days, but remember to love every day.