Here is something I don’t do often – praise my man.

35 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY MAN

1. He gives me lots of cuddles and I love you’s during the day

2. He does the washing, dishes and makes the meals in our home

3. He forgives me when I have been a total bitch

4. He laughs at things I say and tells me I ought to give myself more credit for being witty

5. He trusts me  even when I find it hard to trust myself

6. He likes routine just like me and order. 

7. he is such a big kid and does the school run with our daughter, come rain,  sunshine, or snow,

8. He helps anyone and I mean anyone if he can

9. he  is in love with my soul

10. everyday he compliments me of my fashion style and how my make up looks

11. He put up with my cat Tatiana,who I have had since 2008, (four years before we met ) pissing in the lounge for nearly a year. He cried with frustration because he told me he really loves Tatiana but he couldn’t understand why she suddenly started pissing everywhere ( we have worked things out and Tatiana is less jealous of our daughter these days and goes and does her biz in the box)

12. He won’t have a bad word said about my butt

13. He is a family man and not a man that goes out drinking with his mates until all hours. He enjoys doing family things

14. He is patient with my Eating Disorder and doesn’t make me feel like a freak

15. In the 5 years we have been together he has never let me down not once

16. He has brought out all the good traits in me – even the ones  I thought I never had

17. I don’t feel the need to overdose take drugs or drink with him in my life

18. He will sit with me at the hairdressers and when I get my nails done.

19. He can be silly just like me and we laugh in hysterics at times – like best friends.

20. He lets me do what I want to do: start a business (that failed), volunteer a lot of my time to mental health charities, he encourages me to write and respects my need of solitude

21.  He understands my need to exercise everyday 

22. He’s rather fit and more than a handful in the bedroom 😉

23. He is 100% himself. What you see is what you get. He is fit (rather dapper and suave) and doesn’t have a ego. He does have a healthy ego.

24. He is not the  kind of guy to create drama and go all alpha male if some guy challenges him- that says a lot about his character

25.  He pushed me to carry on studying and get my BA 

26. He loved me and accepted me when my daughter was taken away from me and put into care. ( people who know my story will know I have her back fulltime in my life with no social services

27. He is more intelligent than he lets on but doesn’t patronise me with his knowledge of so many topics – he waits for me to approach certain topics and then I’m blown away by how much he knows on xyz topic

28. He takes a paper towel and soaks up all the extra water in my vegetables and never cooks with oil. I never needed to ask him. He just did it.

29.  Sometimes I think about calling him to help me do something and then don’t and all of a sudden he calls me asking me if I called him. That is a bit trippy

30. He loves jazz

31. He is as stubborn as me

32. I have no money and am poor and he still loves me. 

33. He holds me close when I have panic attacks

34.  He actually communicates with me.

35. People say he looks like Jesus – the best thing is we are not religious at all. He could probably get away with murder. He can’t turn water into wine 

I don’t tell him enough how much he means to me but he is a huge part off my world. I can’t wait to be his bride. Happy endings are not perfect like in fairy tales – happy endings are usually a result of a lot if suffering and compromise.  The end may be the end of one book but it is also the start of another ‘once upon a time…..’