I have been loved. I have truly truly been loved.

January 18, 2023

I was thinking about some of the nicest and most loving things men have done for me. There are so many. It’s easy to think about all the ways I’ve been wronged, but there have been some incredible men in my life who have done incredible things for me. Those are memories I treasure and reminisce upon, on ugly, frozen, stay-at-home winter days like this.

I hadn’t been dating Don long when, on one of our ever-other-Sunday’s together, he told me he’d forgotten his daughter’s piano recital. He had to leave in a few minutes, and he’d be gone for a bit. I knew he was a private person, I assumed that anyway. I knew he’d been hurt horribly by his ex-wife and had only dated one other woman before me. I assumed he might have trust issues.

“Oh, well I can go, we can see one another next time. Or I have some errands I can run and come back, if it’s not too late,” I said, assuming he’d not want me in his apartment alone. He barely knew me.

“No! You can stay here. I shouldn’t be gone longer than a couple hours. Please, make yourself at home. Do you know the Wi-Fi password?”

“Are you sure? I understand if it makes you uncomfortable,” I said, expecting him to change his mind, although that’s silly. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. He was…