Now I know it was only you I've been searching for

PostSecret. I check it each week, usually on Monday mornings. Sometimes the secrets are so heartbreaking they bring tears to my eyes. Sometimes I see myself in them. And sometimes they bring a smile to my face.

This video has a few of the heartbreaking secrets. I can relate to the one in which the girl gives her heart and the boy says, "No thanks." But what I know most is the one at the end..."Good love is on the way." Good love isn't something that just randomly shows up in our lives. Sometimes we don't recognize it. Often we want it to be perfect. Every once in awhile, we do everything in our power to screw it up, because we don't believe that it's enough, that the love we have is good enough.

And then, every once in a great great great while, we are lucky enough to have our eyes opened in time to avoid throwing away the good love. Love isn't always exciting. It doesn't always make us want to send secrets in to Frank Warren or doodle hearts on our notepads or give the sensation of a roller-coaster ride. Sometimes we're not sure that the good love is good enough. But then we realize...well, we realize that for all of someone's flaws and imperfections, that that person is the one that we see in the future, for all of the future, the one that we need when life crashes down and the one that we celebrate with when life gets good.

It's been a tough six months. It's probably still going to be a bit of a rough road. But to know again that I have a partner, someone to plan the future with, someone that is my first in the morning and last at night, well...well, it's making all my cheesy love songs make sense again.


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