285 Marbles
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables”
There seems to be a love theme in my daughter’s world. Today, at the dinner table, she asked me about when I fell in love with her Dad. “Was it love at first sight?” she asked. “Yes,” I answered. “How did you know?” “The heart just knows,” I said. “How old were you,” asked my son. “Fourteen, but when I really felt my heart grow two sizes was when he played the piano for me and a friend of ours. We may have been fifteen.” My daughter said, “But Dad always says that I don’t know about things because I’m too young.” “Hmmmm, that’s his point of view but what do you think?” “I don’t think I’m too young,” she responded. It seems she’s getting curious about love and relationships.
So my first contact with Ex-man was at the Mayfair at his boys’ school with my friends from my girls’ school. I saw him and our eyes locked - - then I blasted him with a water balloon. He turned to me and pointed. He saw me. It’s almost like we’ve been throwing balloons at each other ever since.
I spent the next few years being pals with him, putting him into headlocks just to get close to him. He became the object of my love and I somehow thought that if he loved me back (in a way other than wrestling buddies) all would be fine in my world. When we started dating a few years later, he told me that he had loved me all along. Everything was just as I had dreamed it would be, that is until he broke up with me on Thanksgiving Day when we were eighteen.
When we reunited ten years later after both of us had experienced a divorce, it felt that all was right in my world again. It took me another breakup with him to start to realize that my world being right has little to do with him or anyone else. These marbles are helping me break the cycle of letting my happiness rest on another. They are helping me learn to be in love whether I am with someone or I’m solely with me.
Can you be in love today, despite your breakup? Vincent Van Gogh said, “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” When you step out your door, walk in love…
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables”
There seems to be a love theme in my daughter’s world. Today, at the dinner table, she asked me about when I fell in love with her Dad. “Was it love at first sight?” she asked. “Yes,” I answered. “How did you know?” “The heart just knows,” I said. “How old were you,” asked my son. “Fourteen, but when I really felt my heart grow two sizes was when he played the piano for me and a friend of ours. We may have been fifteen.” My daughter said, “But Dad always says that I don’t know about things because I’m too young.” “Hmmmm, that’s his point of view but what do you think?” “I don’t think I’m too young,” she responded. It seems she’s getting curious about love and relationships.
So my first contact with Ex-man was at the Mayfair at his boys’ school with my friends from my girls’ school. I saw him and our eyes locked - - then I blasted him with a water balloon. He turned to me and pointed. He saw me. It’s almost like we’ve been throwing balloons at each other ever since.
I spent the next few years being pals with him, putting him into headlocks just to get close to him. He became the object of my love and I somehow thought that if he loved me back (in a way other than wrestling buddies) all would be fine in my world. When we started dating a few years later, he told me that he had loved me all along. Everything was just as I had dreamed it would be, that is until he broke up with me on Thanksgiving Day when we were eighteen.
When we reunited ten years later after both of us had experienced a divorce, it felt that all was right in my world again. It took me another breakup with him to start to realize that my world being right has little to do with him or anyone else. These marbles are helping me break the cycle of letting my happiness rest on another. They are helping me learn to be in love whether I am with someone or I’m solely with me.
Can you be in love today, despite your breakup? Vincent Van Gogh said, “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” When you step out your door, walk in love…
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