About Me
There came a moment in our lives when everything felt right, that was our wedding day August 26, 2006. After years of stress from juggling school, emotions, heartache, friends, family, and each other it finally made sense as to why we were the couple to go through just about everything.....it was because of the future we were about to face. There were days when we both would talk about our future together and it seemed as though everything was going to be great, no matter how bad the situation. Then the day came we were dreading the most, his first deployment date. Nothing prepares you for the emotions running through you the last few days together. Fears run through your head, a lump forms in your throat, and your stomach hurts so bad you have to force yourself to eat. When the hour comes for the good bye's to be said, you never notice the tears streaming down your face because every part of you hurts. For someone who has never experienced the loss of a best friend, this was the closest I have ever come to it.
7 years ago..............
Brian and I love to remind each other of how we met and how long it took us to even hold hands. We had both only opened our hearts to one other person back in our high school days and really didn't know how to live in the moment when starting college. It only took us 6 short months to fall head over heels for each other but along with that came the fights. It seems everyone has at least one person they can remember who they would go back to time and time again to try and make things work. No matter if it was a boyfriend or a best friend. This sums up the first 4 years of our dating scene. Off and on, on and off, back and forth, fight after fight, tear after tear, it got old fast even for us. Right when things were going so well, one fight seemed to shatter the work we had put into our relationship time and time again. We loved each other so much, but how were we going to make this happen if we couldn't stop sweating the small stuff.
I moved back to Atlanta to be closer to family and start a job as close as I could get to the city, but without Brian. Brian had one more year left in college and was going through physical therapy from a torn ACL. I had to make the move to see if what we had was real. Just like we always had we spent the first 6 months of the move asking each other what we wanted out of our relationship. It had finally come down to that point to make a decision about "Us". The funny thing about our whole story comes to this.....it just happened! We grew up, point blank. There came a day when petty stuff stopped bothering us. Not knowing how it happened or even caring for that matter, we've enjoyed every day EVER since. It only took 2 months of pure relationship bliss for Brian to mention us sharing our I do's. And honestly, knowing we were on the same page FINALLY, it was the easiest question to answer!!
There was a plan for us to go through pure relationship madness, and there's a simple explanation for it all-we needed the comfort of knowing that no matter what happened we were going to fight to stand by each other. When you look outside to see it pouring down rain so hard you can't even see the street light, it isn't such a bad thing after all. Because without the rain, how would things grow?
