They are saying that you can see the exact moment that Jennifer Garner falls in love with Ben Affleck here and whilst she does look smitten only she can say when she fell in love but it got me thinking about falling in love with my husband. And whist I didn’t tell him in that moment I remember thinking oh god things are about to change forever.
I remember the day it was Sunday I remember what we were doing I was sitting in a lounge chair reading a text-book studying, I was doing a psychology degree at the time. He was on the floor writing something a letter no doubt when a Garth Brooks song came on..One Night A Day to be exact. He got up from the floor grabbed my hand and slow danced me around my living room.
That was it. I was gone I was his. Forever marked by him. And I think of that moment a lot and play that song more than I care to admit. It’s what keeps me going some days some nights when the silence is too much to bare.
He left for deployment a week later but I didn’t tell him. I thought it would pass and that I thought I had plenty of time. Obviously neither happened.
So over the static of an old sat phone in the front garden of my childhood home I paced as I said I need to tell you something.. I mustered the courage that doesn’t come easy to someone who doesn’t like to hold hands in public and blurted I love you …
and I got nothing back..but thats okay he had told me ten days after we met {a week before} that he thought he loved me it’s just he thought I was sleeping.
So I guess we were even.
Do you remember the moment?
xxDeb
