Love is

I spent the entire day yesterday with a new coworker of mine who is married to a old coworker of mine. They have an incredible love story filled with experiences that people only dream of. Meeting each other in Ireland while he was visiting for work, dancing with her on his last night there, writing letters to each other for years to keep in touch, moving halfway across the world to be together, getting married in a castle on a whim, climbing Mount Everest, teaching children in Kathmandu, quitting their jobs to go travel the world...the list goes on and on. As I sat there listening to her I realized what was most touching were not the stories themselves, but how she told them. How she talked about her husband after all of these years. She still sounded like a teenager in love. She still blushed when talking about he kissed her for the first time. They've been married for 20 years now. I asked her what the secret was, and she had a simple answer. They do things together :) They spend most of their time together, growing as a couple and as individuals through shared experiences. She described all of his unique characteristics and what makes them different but spoke of him as her other half. How she goes crazy if she doesn't seem him for two weeks, and him feeling the same way about her. How going home to him every night makes her heart whole. So as I boarded my plane back home I realized their relationship isn't just about being married for 20 years, it's about being madly in love for 20 years. It's beautifully inspiring and uplifting, and it changed me to hear it.