Spending years with someone really just means you make it through the fight. {All of them. The bar fights, the long night fights, and the quiet, whispered, exhausted fights.}

Spending years with someone means that you let them hear your tiniest, smallest, most heartbreaking cries - and it means letting them rescue you. Even if you fight it, even if you feel like you don't need it, and even if you feel like you can do it yourself. {Spending years with someone means you don't have to do it yourself.}

Spending years with someone really just means they'll sing those words back to you and you'll read it back to them and you'll walk to where you're going together. {Spending years with someone means you've always got someone that remembers the words.}

Spending years with someone really just means you know about that scar on his nose, the one on his finger, and the ones inside his torn up chest. Spending years with someone really just means you get to reach into that chest with your own dirty hands and you get to cradle what the others left behind and you get to piece it all back together.

Spending years with someone means miststeps. sidesteps. baby steps.

Spending years with someone really just means you live through the refrains and you dance through the melodies. Spending years with someone means whispered prayers that sound a lot like the future, hope, and faith.

Spending years with someone just means you keep saying yes. {Spending years together is my favorite yes.}