To my friend, my lover, my partner in crime and now my wife. 

When I first met you, it was during a turbulent time in my life. I was surrounded by constant negativity which was slowly draining me. I had little to no faith in relationships to the point I was mentally content living with the idea of dying alone, but when you think you don’t have anyone on your side God always has a way of reminding you that he’s always there. 

When we found each other, I didn’t know what to expect since I didn’t expect anything anymore  but when I looked into your eyes god got exactly what he expected and we fell in love. From your beautiful smile, to the way you did your hair and your wonderful fragrance I couldn’t stop thinking about you. The thought of you consumed my mind. 

When I look back at our relationship, there was one of many defining moments that I knew I had found the woman I’ve always been waiting for. You had come to visit me at my home after I met you a few times and I was so embarrassed because at the time everything was taken from me even my daughter. I had no beds, no where to sit, no TVs to watch and just one air mattress which we gave to JC to sleep on. When it came for us to go to sleep, we walked into the room and it was empty with just some blankets and pillows on the floor. When we laid down, I couldn’t even look you in the face from the embarrassment. But, you grabbed my face, looked me in the eyes and told me everything was going to be ok. We gave each other a kiss, we held each other close and fell asleep on each other’s arms and everyday has been more than ok ever since. 

In Genesis Chapter 2 verse 22 and 23 it states:

“And the LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.” “And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

When I think about those verses, I think about you and ever since I met you I’ve been praying to god to put that rib back into me that way I’ll always have you by my side. I promise to love you, honor you, cherish you and love your children as my own and promise to help you raise them into the fine men and women we know they’ll be. 

To Mr Hill and Ms Hyde. Today, I promise to you that from this day forward, I will always love and protect your daughter with my life just like I know you guys would do. I promise today that your daughter has seen her last days of crying unless it’s tears of joy. I will show her love and affection, and caring. She will only know happiness and never ever deal with children behavior because now she has a real man in her life. 

I look forward to the rest of our lives together, I look forward in growing old still picking up truck loads of Amazon packages from the front of the house. I look forward to you yelling at me because I leave half empty water bottles everywhere knowing you hate it. I know one day we’ll be together really old, in our final days and I’ll grab your face, hold you close, look into your eyes and tell you……everything’s going to be ok. I love you.