This one might be the most difficult to write, as finding words that do justice to the feeling I get when I look at her and feel my heart open up and pour out true, pure love seems impossible. However, if there’s ever been anyone worthy of writing about, it’s my wonderful partner Maia.

I’ve been lucky enough to hold the hand of this beautiful woman for almost 4 years now and still each day I learn a new facet of her humanity, constantly evolving and unfurling emotions within myself I didn’t know existed. I often find myself bewildered by her majesty.

To say it’s all roses would be a lie. Love, I’ve come to find, is a complex dynamic of joy, wonder, excitement, challenge, frustration, compromise and growth, but one thing I know for sure is that some people are worth all of that. The most important thing is that you accept your other for the person they are, they will be the yin to your yang, providing the push and challenge where you need it, just like you provide for them, creating a really beautiful bond of growth.

I am unspeakably grateful for her; she’s sweet, passionate, intelligent, empathetic, respectful, considerate and insanely gorgeous. Some days I have to slap myself to prove this dream woman is not just a dream. If I could travel back in time and tell my younger self what was in store, he’d be pretty fucking stoked to say the least. I’ve not usually been the one to gush about love or my relationship, maybe it’s a remnant of the “tough-boy” age of masculinity, but these days I can’t seem to help the soft mushy feelings I get when I look at her, or think about her, or talk about her to my peers.

Today I held her hand across the restaurant table while we waited for our lunch to arrive, as the waiter turned the corner we separated our touch to prepare to dig in, but not before I clocked a quick, sweet smile from the young man that brought out our food as he saw us holding hands. “Enjoy your food guys” he said as he reverted into service-mode and left us to our meal. I think that’s the funny little thing that spurred today’s writing.

I’m constantly bewildered by her compassion, her considerate nature and her ability to put the whole world ahead of herself. Often I wish she wouldn’t because personally, I think she’s much more important and far more interesting than all of it, everything else seems to pale in comparison. I acknowledge I have a little bias on this however.

If you happen to read this mi amor, I hope you know that you are an absolutely stunning example of powerful feminine energy and I am forever enamoured by and grateful for your beauty, intelligence, morality and your shining light of love.

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