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Love Grows

13 Feb

Since Valentine’s Day is tomorrow I thought I’d share the history of Valentine’s Day for Kyle and I–we didn’t actually celebrate Valentine’s Day together until our third year of dating. Here’s why….

In 2009 Kyle and I were re-introduced, he’d just come back from active duty and I was a single girl healing from heartbreak. My eyes lit up as soon as I saw him at a Super Bowl party. The way he held himself, his body language and presence was so different from what I remembered. The Air Force did him well, he became a handsome grown-up man, but he still retained his relaxed go with the flow fun attitude he was known for. We started talking and hanging out as friends so that first Valentine’s Day passed us by without any acknowledgement. We became an official couple in March.

For our very first Valentine’s Day together in 2010 we weren’t actually together, he was in the Air Force Reserves and his annual “two weeks a year” training happened to land during that time. Continue reading