A Love Like That

Sometimes finding fun things to do with your husband can be a challenge. One that we women don’t always get right. Although there are those of us out there who manage to always be right with their husbands in the thick of anything fun.

Of course what is fun for one couple may be like pulling teeth for another. I can remember my father working int he garage when I was growing up and my mother always being out there with him. I never understood it until I was an adult. I thought he asked her to come out there. The truth was she sat out there, sometimes all night, while he did something he enjoyed because she wanted to be with him.

For her it wasn’t about having fun or not it was about being together. That in turn made it fun. My father would drag my mother all over the place. He would wake everyone up and we would be off on a trip to see something or do something. No matter how much my mother protested she always went. In fact I saw an ebike the other day that made me think about them together. He would have made her try one out and she would have been telling him no the whole time she was doing it.

When my father got sick she sat at his bedside for months. When he was home she was right there. Bathing him, feeding him, changing out his iv tubes and bags. That is the kind of love I always dreamed of. My mother loved my father so much she will spend the rest of her life alone. She can’t imagine anyone else in her life.

She always knew just what to buy him for a gift. I would have to spend hours like reading articles on this website just to have idea of what I could my ex. In fact, it was the second or third Christmas after my divorce that I realized just how compatible we were.

How many wives struggle with what to buy their husband? My sister in-law asks me what my brother wants but not because she don’t know him well enough. It’s because he has it all and he normally wants Jeep parts. I couldn’t pick out a gift because I had no clue what he really liked.

He didn’t know what I liked either. He gave me a dolphin one year. It was pretty but I am not the girl you give a dolphin to. It wasn’t even in our first year together. We had been together almost ten years. how do not know a person in ten years.

I still hold out hope that I will one day have the kind of love that my parents had. It may never happen but at least I had the privilege of seeing in my life time. I have no doubt if my father was still alive he would be dragging my mother out to store in the middle of the night because he needed some chocolate or taking a trip to the lake because they needed a day away.