20 Years

"525,600 minutes
525,000 moments so dear
525,600 minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?" - Seasons of Love

20 Years

20 years.
20 years = 2 decades = a considerable passage of time.
20 years of watching you from the corner of my eye so I don't miss anything you do.
20 years means our relationship can almost legally drink.
20 years of standing side by side but really being almost a single entity.
20 years with 3 hockey lockouts.
20 years of growing, maturing, changing, adapting, but never falling out of love.
20 years with everyone we know still trying to figure out why you're with me.
20 years and still undertaking new and different adventures (hello house).
20 years of waiting on the world to change and realizing a) that's a crappy song and b) we don't need anything to change as long as we're together.
20 years of not being able to smile without you.
20 years of dancing closely, singing softly, and having the tunnel vision of love.
20 years of ever changing communication methods (letters, land line phone calls, cell phones, skype, email, texting, IM) all of which just make it easier to say, I love you!
20 years of partaking of a love written just for us.
20 years with 3 ever growing children creating more of a bond between us.
20 years and you still amaze me.
20 years and we still mark each month's anniversary (That's 240 for anyone keeping track. I know we are.)
20 years of Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you. (Yes, you have just been rickrolled)
20 years and it doesn't even compare to our parents and grandparents who set the original template of how to love.
20 years - not even remotely enough time.

At this point, it should go without saying that I love you, but I say it because you should hear it and know how true it is. We couldn't possibly have looked forward 20 years ago and seen where everything was going and where we'd be in the future, but even at that point, we pretty much knew whatever or wherever it was, we'd be together. So, once again, I loved you then, I love you now and I'm always going to love you.

Between now and then til I see you again I'll be loving you, Love me.