Rob has an MLB application on his ipod that he likes to look at when he’s trying to fall asleep at night. So the other night I was snuggled into the crook of his arm watching the plays of the day with him when he suddenly clicks it over to his music, hands me an ear phone and says, “Let’s listen to some music together…”
He said it so casually and seemingly spontaneously that I had no idea he’d been planning it for days just waiting for the opportune moment. I popped in the ear phone and next thing I know he’s playing a playlist for me made up of songs all dedicated…to me.
So as I lay there, (tears streaming down) I was thinking to myself: “After 18 years together how does he manage to still surprise me?” When I say surprise I am not referring to the unexpected gift of the playlist---which was a lovely surprise---but rather the fact that he is able to continue to make me fall more in love with him in spite of the years that have passed and everything that we have been through in those years.
Surely there is a statute of limitations on wooing but if there is, no one has informed Rob of it. I don’t know how he has been able to put up with me knowing all of my faults and loving me in spite of them. He is too good to me. I don’t deserve him.
