blacksand
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This is a silly post, but I’m happy, so bear with me! It may not make it into the new system anyway, so it will be gone soon enough! I love my boyfriend. This weekend, I really started to feel like we were family, and it was thrilling.
On Saturday, we went to his sister and brother-in-law’s new house. We met his parents there to celebrate the new house, my boyfriend’s new job (after a long, hard, unemployment), his dad’s birthday and a very belated Mother’s Day. So literally everyone at the table was being honored except for me (not that I minded; I’m thrilled about all of these things!). But somehow, his mom managed to make me feel like a million bucks. We toasted to all the aforementioned good things happening, and then she turned to me, almost in tears, and said, “I also want to personally thank you, blacksand, for being so good to him [i.e., during his unemployment]. I know that everything he went through, you went through with him. It takes a very special person to do that, and I think you’re pretty special.” I very nearly burst into tears. Everyone hugged everyone, and it was a super saccharine family moment. Aww. I love his family.
We had a party at my parents’ the next day. My cousin, who was like a sister to me growing up, was visiting from Florida. He had never met her before. But they greeted each other with a hug anyway, because they’d heard so much about each other. “So this is the one who’s going to be your matron of honor?” he asked me. By the end of the day, we’d already made plans to go visit her and her husband in Disney World this fall (!). I’m not sure if I’m more excited about Disney or about spending time with my cousin, but I love that he’s so into the idea of us spending time with the people who are important to me.
I told him that night that I didn’t mean to sound like I was in a rush, but I can’t wait for us to be family. “We already are,” he said. “I’m just working on making it official.”
The funny thing is, I’m a dry sarcastic cynic most of the time in real life. If you only read my PS posts, you’d probably think I was all puppies and rainbows and cotton candy all the time. That’s so not the case. But this is how happy this man makes me.
On Saturday, we went to his sister and brother-in-law’s new house. We met his parents there to celebrate the new house, my boyfriend’s new job (after a long, hard, unemployment), his dad’s birthday and a very belated Mother’s Day. So literally everyone at the table was being honored except for me (not that I minded; I’m thrilled about all of these things!). But somehow, his mom managed to make me feel like a million bucks. We toasted to all the aforementioned good things happening, and then she turned to me, almost in tears, and said, “I also want to personally thank you, blacksand, for being so good to him [i.e., during his unemployment]. I know that everything he went through, you went through with him. It takes a very special person to do that, and I think you’re pretty special.” I very nearly burst into tears. Everyone hugged everyone, and it was a super saccharine family moment. Aww. I love his family.
We had a party at my parents’ the next day. My cousin, who was like a sister to me growing up, was visiting from Florida. He had never met her before. But they greeted each other with a hug anyway, because they’d heard so much about each other. “So this is the one who’s going to be your matron of honor?” he asked me. By the end of the day, we’d already made plans to go visit her and her husband in Disney World this fall (!). I’m not sure if I’m more excited about Disney or about spending time with my cousin, but I love that he’s so into the idea of us spending time with the people who are important to me.
I told him that night that I didn’t mean to sound like I was in a rush, but I can’t wait for us to be family. “We already are,” he said. “I’m just working on making it official.”
The funny thing is, I’m a dry sarcastic cynic most of the time in real life. If you only read my PS posts, you’d probably think I was all puppies and rainbows and cotton candy all the time. That’s so not the case. But this is how happy this man makes me.
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