On being in love...

DH and I will have been together for a whopping 10 years this November, and tonight, like most nights, there's something little that happens that makes me laugh, realize how well our lives have been integrated into one anothers.

Tonight, it was DH telling me that he was going upstairs to get the kitty food bowls to bring down and throw in the dishwasher. I had just loaded it up with tonight's dinner dishes, and it should have been a 3 minute dash up the stairs, grab all the bowls, and then back down the stairs. Ten minutes later, still no DH.

I spring upstairs to see what's up, and as I get to the top of the stairs I hear the sounds of ceramic bowls clinking together. I peek in the room and see his desk chair literally spinning. A-ha! I had caught him! He came upstairs to play on the computer, not to get the kitty bowls. I laughed and told him I caught him, and we laughed a little together, tossed some loving insults back and forth, and he ran downstairs with the kitty bowls and I jumped on the computer.

There's really nothing in this world - for me - so reassuring as spending your life with someone with whom you're completely enmeshed. We finish each others sentences, know what the other is thinking before we even say a word, make fun of something that happens with nothing more than a look. We have built our own history, our own vocabulary, our own set of cliches and silly references and inside jokes.

He knows my insecurities, my neuroses, my hang-ups, my obsessions. And he still loves me (that's a big one). My successes make him happy, rather than making him insecure.

So, because I saw the spinning chair and we both laughed, because he's outside right now taking out the garbage and watching the TV that I left on - which annoys him to no end - and because he'll yell and scream at the TV tonight and I'll yell at him to stop getting so mad about a game (and then he'll laugh at me when I cry during Friday Night Lights), I'm inspired to right this little post about how happy I am to have him, how the past ten years have flown by, and I can't wait for the next ten!