The Love You Always Imagined

All of your life you had this idea of what it would be like when you found the ONE.  Everyone has a different version of how the events will unfold, and no two are alike.
What is hard to do, is to BELIEVE that is the way it will happen as the years go by. 
As your friends get married, and people come and go, you lose sight of that vision. 
Many people go by how a friend tells them it will happen, but deep in your heart you KNOW the TRUTH.
The TRUTH is it will happen exactly as you always thought it would.
How do I know this?
I have seen it.  I have PARTICIPATED in it and I have LIVED it.
I have always been a bit of a match maker.  I have a knack for putting people together (just not myself…hmmm…but I digress…)
One of my friends and I are out and discussing dating.  I am telling her she needs to get out of her house, meet people and the right cone will run arrive.  “No, someone will introduce me to him.”  “What?  Don’t be so closed minded, maybe you will find him when you least expect it?”  “I will.  But I think we will be introduced.”  I thought she was crazy.
Fast forward a year or so…I am out with a friend who I had just set up with HIS now wife.  He brings a friend along.  Hmmm….this guy is perfect for someone I know…so I arrange a meeting with him and my Friend.  Neither knows it is a set up (which is the BEST way to match-make, as there is NO pressure.)
They meet, can’t stop talking to each other.  As we are leaving she proclaims “OMG that guy is so perfect for me!”  “I know, that is why I dragged you here.”    Two weeks later she calls me laughing “Remember me telling you someone would introduce me to the guy for me?  THIS is the guy, and YOU introduced us! “I was floored, she was right!  Not only did she say what she wanted to happen I was the one who facilitated it!
I wanted the man for me to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.  I felt he should be the one to initiate everything, and fight for it.  Well, when they man for me finally showed up, he did JUST THAT.  He even fought ME to prove it, and went so far as to say he would compete with anyone for me.  Every time I told him I was not ready or to back off, he got more and more vulnerable, essentially cutting his heart out and handing it to me…now who can resist that?  But it was exactly as I had always imagined.
Now the point of all this is:
How did you imagine finding your true love would go down?  You hunting him to the ends of the earth?  Or him declaring his undying love to you?  If what you are involved in is not the way you envisioned, perhaps, you should take a step back:  SLOW DOWN…and make sure you get the love of your life the way you always imagined…
-Terri Wilson
February 14, 2016
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