Week 6 Post: True Love

How do you know when someone is The One?

I was at a little bit of a loss about what to write about for my week 6 blog post.  I enjoyed the email that you sent out with suggestions for this week’s blog posting, but nothing in it really, truly jumped out and spoke to me. So while I was thinking about how I had nothing to write about, something suddenly came to me. I’m attending my boyfriend’s sisters wedding in Kentucky over fall break and I thought, why not reflect on love and marriage.  My boyfriend and I recently started dating and although I have no intentions of getting married any time soon, we both know that this relationship has serious potential. It’s the only serious relationship I’ve ever had. Also every time I turn around lately, somebody else seems to be engaged. My best friend’s 23-yr old sister (I just turned 22 in September!) just became engaged during a trip to Costa Rica last week. So this issue of engagement and marriage has become very prevalent in my life lately.

I was about 11 when my parent’s divorced. I didn’t grow up in a happy household, with a wonderful example of a loving, committed relationship. It was almost a relief when my parent’s divorced and as the oldest of 4 children, I was probably the most deeply affected. As a teenager, I was extremely skeptical of relationships and true love; I still am to this day. Now, seeing so many people, SO close to my age getting married (it honestly freaks me out), I am starting to wonder how to address all the questions I have about love and marriage, since they weren’t really answered for me when I was younger.

How do you know you are so in love that you can spend the rest of your life with someone? How do you know the person you are with is THE one, or that they aren’t, and there is someone else out there you are meant to marry?

I will be honest; I am quite tired this week and am going to leave the rest of this question to be answered in my post after the wedding. Perhaps I will have some moment of constellation at the wedding and will be able to come upon my answers to theses very big questions easily. Hopefully I will even have some pictures to post!