To the man who taught me so much about love: Thank you. I'll never be able to say it enough.

I've experienced a lot of love before you and, at the time, I thought it was the highest, greatest form of love to ever exist. You've proved that to be untrue each and every day.

I could go on and on about your sparkling personality and dashingly good looks. However, those are not the parts about you that make your soul so kind and make me so proud to call you mine.

You have taught me what it means to truly appreciate, respect, and accept someone for everything that they are. And I can't express to you how amazing of a feeling that is.

I wake up every day knowing I'm going to have a good day because you have taught me to put myself first and love myself for everything I stand by and everything I believe in. Even though you may not always agree with me. We have agreed to disagree and accept the things we can't change about one another. And that is something so extraordinary in my eyes.

You love me for me. For all the good, the bad, the ugly, and the crazy. All I ever wanted in a relationship was to have a best friend and a genuine love all at the same time. You've given me that, and so much more.

I never feel like there are ever enough hours in the day with you, even on the days that aren't the best for either of us. You always give me butterflies and make my stomach continuously flip. One look in your eyes. One kind, unexpected compliment. One harmless joke. Any of it and all of it make me smile so hard and so much a slight cramp often shoots across my jaw line. And that is the greatest type of pain to ever run across my body.

You love me in a way that always makes me feel like I am more than enough. Every second of every day, I feel like the prettiest and most loved girl in any room. You helped me achieve that feeling. It's a feeling that is indescribably euphoric and something I never thought I would feel. Yet, now, I do daily.

At the end of the day, I can say with absolute certainty, you will always choose me. You will always love me, even when I make you crazy. Even when I'm at my worst, I know, I am loved. And nothing could ever change that. Nothing could ever change the love we exchange between the two of us. And man, that's an amazing feeling. To be so sure and trusting of another human being that could crush you in the blink of an eye. But in the same moment, to know they will never hurt you. To be so sure is something I never thought I would find. So thank you, for all that you do to make me fully understand what it means to be truly adored and loved by someone.

You love me in a way every girl wishes to be loved and somehow, God was kind enough to give me you and make me the lucky one.

Thank you for being the person I needed you to be and for teaching me what I truly deserve. I now understand the value of a good, honest, and extraordinary person. And that is a feeling I never want to un-feel.