It's Here

It's wedding day today...
My vows...I'm going to forget them I'm sure and I'm thinking about adding something in about fries, but this is how I intended them to be:

I vow to talk to you before things get really bad and mistakes are made.

I vow to do my best to not take you for granted and remember that though it’s certainly not perfect, most people spend their lives looking for what we have, and hope that you can forgive me when I forget this.

I vow when I’m angry to try and take a step back and remember what your eyes look like looking at me…really it’s what behind your eyes. I’m never going to have anyone look at me with more love…and I vow to try and remember that anyone who can look at me like that still, is someone with another side to the story that I’m sure didn’t indent to hurt me.

I vow to walk away from your past, as well as mine and let go of all the things that I should have let go a long time ago but that I instead let creep up into my head and made problems appear. I vow to start a life with you leaving everything behind that isn’t going to help us move forward.

I vow to honor you and where you stand, even when I don’t agree with you and to accept you for who you are even when it is very different than me –and remember that it’s those differences that make us who we are and the essence of the other person that we love.

I vow to whole-heartedly trade all of the newness from the beginning of relationships that I will never have and am leaving behind for the comfort of you knowing me so many times better than I know myself and for the love with you that I will have for the rest of this lifetime and I believe after.

I vow to be there to pick you up, even when no one else will and when you’re wrong and I know it and I’d rather spit in your face….I will be there to pick you up.

Most importantly I vow to be here. I vow to be here when I really don’t want to, when it’s hard and when it’s easier to be somewhere else –I vow to be here.