Six - The Occasional Back Scrub

This dear sweet woman just appears sometimes when I'm in the shower, and offers to wash my back. She leans over the shower threshold, grabs the wet soapy scrubby, and what follows is a minute or two of pampered bliss. I am in tears just thinking about it. The first time was revelatory, but the most recent time was a wonderment: I just thought for a moment about the last time she did it, and *poof* she appeared! My girl loves me so! I hope it never gets old for her.

Update: yep, she's still doing it.

Five - Fun Words about F W.

FW!

Sometimes I pronounce it "Eff Dub."

At one time it meant Future Wife!

Now it stands for Fabulous Wife...

It can morph into almost anything, as the situation warrants:

Funny Woman.

Fashionably Witty.

Freaky Witch (nah!)

Fabulous, Wonderful.

Flamboyant Whistler (wha?)

Et cetera.

It is how she signed off one time on a note to me, early in our 2nd courtship, and the meaning keeps changing and growing. She'll always be my FW!

Four - Mmm, oniony!

My Robin is so wonderfully complex. She surprises me all the time with tidbits of trivia, or some info about a shared interest. Sometimes it is related to world history, science, or home improvement. Sometimes it is some obscure delight that we came to independently, and it feels so good that we share a passion for it. Other times, it is something I've never heard of before, and she always acts surprised, as though I am too worldly for her to catch me unawares. But I'm not, and she does. She's fascinating and smart, in ways that endlessly delight me.

You get it? We both have layers.

Three - The way she makes me feel when I catch her looking at me

Sometimes my wife looks at me with this fierce, crazy love in her eye, when I'm not looking. I feel her gaze and look over, and my heart just melts. When I catch her like that, I realize how lucky I am that she looked me up, and that she found me. I know for certain we are supposed to be together whenever I see that look. And it keeps me going, and then I catch her again. It is an endless cycle, like a perpetual motion machine, or a magic purse that never runs out of coins. I'm so lucky!

Two - She's got my back!

Whatever it is, she supports me 100%! We have a wonderful partnership, and she is always on my side. We make decisions together, even when her opinion is more informed than mine. It makes me feel so blessed. I just love being her partner.

She treats me like a king, in so many ways. It makes it easier for me to do nice things for her, because she is always doing nice things for me. It makes me feel like I want to try to keep up with her (there goes that quid pro quo again!).

And even when she disagrees with me (or some action I take), she supports me publicly, and talks to me about it later, privately. And she does it with such tenderness and love, that it is never a downer. It makes it easy for me to treat her the same way.