What's Love Got To Do With It?

[Shirley]

Everything, apparently.... (and I happen to agree)

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tammy Rizzo" <tammy at m...> 
wrote:
> Well, for my part, I tell my husband out loud, every day, that I 
love him very much.  This serves two purposes, of course -- first, it 
tells him that I love him, very much.  It also reminds me that, each 
day, I *CHOOSE* to love him.  Loving someone is an act of will as 
much as it is a chemical reaction.  I know my husband's good points 
and his bad points, and I know that he loves me, and that he chooses, 
every day, to love me, AND that I still turn him on -- he calls me 
sexy all the time.  I love his hands, how they labor for my sake, and 
how they wander so softly over my skin, and all the other wonderful 
things he does with them.  Every day, I make a concious choice (not 
that there's any question, just that I choose to do this) to love 
HIM, the whole package, good and bad, 48-year-old man and 8-year-old 
boy that he still is (aren't they all?).  Choosing each day to love 
him helps me let go of several things other people might see as 
obstacles to their happiness with someone.  For me, though, these 
facets of my husband are not so much obstacles to MY happiness as 
they are obstacles to HIS happiness, and it is my job and my 
privilege, as his wife, friend, and partner, to help him overcome 
them in any way he will allow.
> 
> ***
> Tammy

now Shirley:
WOW!  That was wonderful!  Substitute 52-year-old, and you could be 
describing *my* husband of almost 1 year (on October 19th :-) ).  
And, having been in a not-wonderful (enough said) first marriage, I 
*truly* value what I have with this man.  Too bad he's out of town 
until tomorrow, or I'd go home and smother him with kisses tonight!

Thank you for that great testimonial....

Shirley