Today is my 9th anniversary with my Jon and conveniently enough it’s also Valentine’s Day!

What a great wife I was to help him out that way.

When Jon and I first met I was a bit of a mess…I won’t go into why or anything right now, but take my word for it I was.  Of course, one could also argue that he wasn’t too much better off himself and that we did a bit of saving each other.  The only thing I know for sure is that he saved me.

This man who can hold his ground with me, love me, laugh with and at me…this man…he saved me 10+ years ago.  We met fresh out of high school, Jon and I,  certain of our disdain for the world around us.  Both also fresh out of relationships…though I would argue my last relationship before Jon was a bit more meaningful than his last before me, but that’s neither here nor there…Uncertain of my self worth and unsure of whether I even cared,  I was truly a mess.  Jon loved me unlike anyone I’d ever been with.

He loved me.

All of me.

He didn’t care how scarred my past was…or how many lies I had told to make myself seem more interesting.

This was his song to me then…and it’s still my favorite NIN song.  I’m not that same girl now, but I remember her…and I remember the love that saved her.

 

Another song that I felt was descriptive of myself at the time and one that I would play on repeat was this Stir song, Climbing the walls.

 

I’m thankful everyday for Jon, but today I’m reminded a little more vividly of the little whys that get lost in the day to day.  I’m a lucky girl.  He’s a lucky guy.

Our ‘song’ I guess now is this fun song by Weezer, Trippin Down the Freeway – I smile the instant it comes on, it’s Jon’s ringtone, and it’s the truth.  We’re in this forever.  And I am sure ‘our song’ will continue to change as we do. (And yes, I realize how corny this song is.)

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