Love Without Reservations.
Nobody told me it would feel this quiet. That is the thing nobody prepares you for. You spend years bracing for love. Gripping it tight so it does not leave. Monitoring it constantly for signs that something is about to go wrong. Reading between every line of every text message like there is a secret…
I want to tell you about a woman I know. She is warm, generous, and the kind of person who will drop everything for the people she loves. She remembers birthdays. She checks in on friends going through hard seasons. She loves loudly and without apology and everybody around her feels it. But the moment…
Finding someone you truly love changes everything. Suddenly, you love someone deeply, but you also cannot find a single second of actual peace. You might notice your spouse staring off into space or shutting down, and you just know something is wrong. You ask what is up. They say, “Nothing.” But it is never nothing. The…
My husband David is not a talker. I knew this about him when I married him. I told myself I was okay with it. I am a words person. I write for a living. I say I love you the way some people breathe, automatically, constantly, without thinking. And David, bless him, will look at…