You are my derivative...

...and I love when you lie tangent to my curve.

You were never a place holder. And while in reflection of our last couple years together, I see so clearly now that you were my beginning. The support and bullshit-flag-throwing I needed to build the foundation for my adult life. Because of you I am a better version of myself; I'm stronger, I'm healthier, I'm more confident, I can kinda cook stuff, I have never felt so much like myself. I know I can get out of hand sometimes, and my take on the world can be too much to compute but the fact that I can even share those things with you, without hesitation, even if it makes you shake your head and turn your eyes skyward, is more than I've ever had or any man has ever offered me.

Thank you for another perfect Valentine's Day. I appreciate, and am so thankful for, you. I don't know where I'd be right now if it weren't for you, but I'm sure I wouldn't like it. Or have a gym membership, or know how to make biscuits and gravy...which are two things that shouldn't exist without the other. You've brought much needed balance to my life and I will be always be sincerely grateful.

I love you honey.