Why do I love my husband? I just don't know. It's a special feeling I have when he's around. He's a sweet, kind, sensitive man. He would do anything for me and I would do anything for him. I love the way we feel together in each others arms. I love the way I feel when he's listening to me run off all the problems and has learnt that I don't want him to fix them, but to listen. I love the way I feel when he's planning his stratagies for gaming and he talks a mile a minute about how he wants to do this or do that and I'm not really listening and he knows it! I love the way he takes care of our girls and how he's handled them once I let him take over some of the responsibility. I love the way he stablizes my life, understands my dreams, supports my beliefs and inspires me to achieve so much more than I ever thought I could! Is that enough? I don't think I could ever express the depth of my love, but I thing he believes in it and knows it's there. I also believe on most days that he thinks the same way about me. <BR>I will never be blind again to the needs of our marriage and I will never again allow him to shut his eyes to our needs. This is a vow that I believe in because of us.<P>------------------<BR>Chick's<P>You won't see things until your ready to not be blind!<BR>

Nellie - <P>I should have worded what you quoted differently.<P>Most poeple think there is a difference in "love" and "being in love."<P>I most definitely "love" my husband - that does not go away because needs are not met. I am "in love" with my husband when my needs are met. That is what I meant. <P>I should have clarified that. <P>------------------<BR>H

I respected him, admired him and thought his sister was the greatest since pancakes. I thought he was a great guy. I saw his potential. He was a Christian. I enjoyed spending time with him. He valued the same values I did. My kids adored him. He was fun. He was serious. He was determined. We were a short time just friends, but couldn't stop talking no matter how interesting the movies were that we rented. I didn't die for him to call, just knew he would and enjoyed it. I didn't expect him to turn into my lover and husband.<P>Then he kissed me - that was it. I knew. He knew. He proposed 8 months later. The rest is history. <P>I love him because he is mine, and I vowed to love him no matter what. And I do. I could ring his neck sometimes, hit him with a 2x4 or frying pan, but the bottom line beneath all those emotions is I believe in him and will always love him.

How do I love my H? Let me count the ways...<P>1. I love the way he loved his parents..the way he would drop everything to take care of them when they needed him.<P>2. I love how the touch of his hand on my arm warms me all over when I'm cold.<P>3. I love knowing that he would risk his life to save mine if I was in danger.<P>4. I love how he would fix bottles, change diapers and get up with the kids and grandkids in the middle of the night.<P>5. I love how it feels to have his strong arms around me.<P>6. I love his dimples.<P>7. I love how sexy he looks in his new glasses.<P>8. I love to watch him sleep in his recliner with a sleeping little one in his lap.<P>9. I love him for loving our children so much.<P>10. I love him for taking care of me and the kids when I was confined to bed for months during a difficult pregnancy.<P>11. I love him for staying with me the whole time as I gave birth to first one and later another little stillborn daughter.<P>12. I love him for sounding so scared as he asked the doctor if I was going to be all right when I became so very ill giving birth to our last daughter.<P>13. I love him for dropping everything to rush me to the hospital when I became deathly ill from a spider bite.<P>14. I love him for not insisting upon an abortion (which I would refuse to have) when I unexpectedly became pregnant during a really bad time in our marriage. (I later miscarried naturally.) Instead, he said, "Well, we love the two we've got, and we'll love the hell out of this one,too."<P>15. I love him for working so hard so that I could stay home with our children when they were small.<P>16. I love his sense of humor (most of the time ).<P>17. I love how he can find somebody who knows somebody else he knows just about everywhere we go.<P>18. I love how small children gravitate toward him.<P>19. I love knowing that underneath all that bluster, hollering, and griping, he's really this great big ol' teddy bear.<P>20. I love the times when we really make love to each other.<P>21. I love when he tells me I'm pretty.<P>22. I love it when he affectionately teases me.<P>23. I love.........well, y'all get the picture.<P>Gosh! I think I'm gonna jump his bones as soon as I get him alone!!<P> <P>