Today is our anniversary.

We have been together 11 years. 

I met Someone while on holiday in 1997. I wasn’t expecting this. It was the social hour at Big Ruby’s guesthouse and he was at the table. We started talking.

And here we are 11 years later.  

I sometimes wonder why or how he sticks around. My tendencies to blurt and be distracted drive him bats. He can sit still; I am nearly always in continuous motion. When I moved in 3 years later, I came with all my quirks, cats, season tickets to the opera, and my large and extended (ADHD) family.

If he had only asked a few logical questions when he first met me, perhaps he would have put himself at healthy distance from someone like me.Or at least find a boyfriend-doctor who does a billable procedure !  

But he ‘sticks around’, for which I am grateful.  

It is nice to have him in my life. After 11 years I can not imagine life without him. He takes care of me, and keeps me anchored. Through him I have learned a lot. He is knowledgeable about plays and the theatre and how it works. I have gone on cruise holidays because of him; I doubt I would have ever experienced that sort of vacation if it were not for him.  

We will go to a dinner theatre show tonight. As we will both be ‘post-work’ I suspect we will eat, have a drink and promptly nod off. We are quite the middle aged couple now. But such is life and love and growing older. 

I am glad for having someone – Someone – with whom to nod off and wake up.