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I Never Knew What I Had Missed
Some women are nurtured from the day they are born.
I was more or less always expected to be strong and independent.
Some women are pampered and protected all their lives.
I have always been the care GIVER my whole life long.
If I were asked, I would have to say that there has been a gaping hole in my heart.
I too wanted to feel the love and assurance of a stronger, caring man.
It just never happened. Never came to pass in my day-to-day job of keeping the cracks glued together.
Some women love to shop and to spend money on frivolities.
I always felt better when I knew I had a nestegg tucked back for hard times that always seemed to come along.
Some women are vain and self-centered and need to be told a dozen times that they are pretty or sweet or competent.
I’m a country bumpkin who was raised poor, had to be tough, and never heard a kind word from a man until I met you.
I never knew what I had missed.
I never knew that there was a man who would actually protect his wife instead of give her nothing but grief.
I never knew there was a strong, stubborn man who would not take "no" for an answer until he had gotten his way and made my world as safe and credible as he possibly could.
You think you don’t meet the requirements you yourself have written for a husband.
I think that until I met you, I never knew what I had missed.
Even sick, you are the best man I’ve ever met.
Even sick, you help me more than any other person ever has.
Even though you don’t meet your own requirements, you surpass any dream I ever had in my imagination.
I never knew what I had missed.
You judge yourself too harshly, My Love.
You make me happy with your concern for me and my welfare. It feels so good to be loved.
You make me smile with your wise-cracks and strength of character. It’s wonderful to have a friend I can love without reservation.
You fulfill me in a way I never thought possible.
I can be me with you and you don’t criticize or demean. You love me just as I am.
I never knew what I had missed.
My Dear Ms Edwards, you have so perfectly described the truest feelings of love between two of the luckiest people on earth! This masterpiece needs no re-formulation, except to have an exclamation-point added here & there! I will use your beautiful definitions to "find 10", & then lay my own offering near yours, hoping only to receive some of the reflected devotion found in your beautiful work. Brava!, Ms Edwards, you are a continuing source of loving inspiration. You may never know the half of what you inspire! Tj. Teddy
"Poe" I'm not, nor "Rich" am I,
but I'll be famous, b'ye and b'ye !