Six years with this man. Six. I can't even comprehend the amount of time that has passed since we first met. I can still feel that boy and girl meeting for the first time and it brings a smile to my face and tears to my eyes. We have covered so much terrain since that first contact with one another on Match.com. Yes... Match.com. Can you believe it?
Love is a ride. And there is never a way to predict where it will lead you and how you will arrive at any given point along that journey. This relationship for me has been a practice in living, breathing, opening and saying yes. And how that has manifested changes with every year we are together.
The last year has been a difficult one for us. Many adjustments have had to be made as we both moved into his family cabin in Idyllwild and my work changed, finances changed, needs changed. I'm floored still and ever grateful that we are committed to the truth of things, the lovely, ecstatic, hard, unhappy, thrilled, and challenging truth of things as they are want to come up when two people engage in a committed love relationship together.
He has become my family over all these years and this floors me as well. Everything about him is as familiar as the whole of my life existence, his presence is a constant in the world for me in a way that feels timeless... a part of me. Love can be piercing this way, and its something I had never understood before.
I bow in gratitude to us and where we are now. I bow to us and where we may head towards. I bow to the unknown, and I bow to the journey love is constantly leading us on. I bow to the piercing, to the raw and to the timeless. I bow to this man in my life, at my side and the constant evolving, unraveling and deep seeing that is required from us by this love that has brought us together.
I bow reverently to the last 6 years of our lives and all they contained.

