My partner and I were each other's first loves. I was 18 and she was 20. Sadly it was just after Valentine's Day. I fell in love with her at first site. We were together for a few years, apart for a few years, back together again for a few years. Then we did not speak for close to 5 years. She came looking for me when I was in LA....I realized I had always loved her and that I could not wait to be with her. It took me about 6 months to settle my affairs in LA. A year later we were married...its been 8 years since then - almost 28 years since we first met.

I tribute the late marriage to us having been so young and stubborn. Drugs, alcohol, egoes lead us to a lot of hardtimes. And even in early sobriety we both had a lot of hurt to deal with. Time healed a lot of that.

She is my soul mate and although it seems like we speak 2 different languages at times - we are just meant to be together. I can't imagine a life without her.