Everything suddenly feels okay. Every love song you've ever heard makes sense. The voices in your head that are telling you that you'll never be good enough... they're silenced with a kiss.

I've gone from bad relationship to bad relationship. Each one more mentally (and sometimes physically) abusive than the last. I fell in love with people who had nothing but bad intentions. And after the last one, I swore I'd never do it again. I swore I'd never even look at another person. And as soon as I made that decision, I started a new job and he walked in and introduced himself...

"Hi, I'm Joe."

Being in love with him is an unwavering faith. It's like the rest of the world stands still when we're alone. Nothing else matters. There are a million people fighting to pull us apart, but I have a million and one reasons to stay. I read something once that said, "Brown eyes are just brown eyes until you fall in love with someone with brown eyes." I've never read anything more true in my life because looking in his eyes is the most calming thing in the entire world.

So what does it feel like when you finally find "the one"?

It feels like home. It feels like no one in the world has ever loved anything as much as you love this person. It feels like you would do anything in your power to make this person happy. When you look in their eyes, you see the rest of your life. Somehow, everything in the world makes sense and somehow, at the same time, absolutely nothing in this world makes sense.

Finding the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with is like similar to finally understanding your favorite song. Falling in love with "the one" is your favorite song.

The cold no longer feels cold.

The sadness in your heart suddenly doesn't feel as prominent.

My favorite song sounds "I'll love you forever if I ever love at all, with wild hearts, blue jeans and white t-shirts." (Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts // The Gaslight Anthem)

It finally makes sense to me. I finally understand that finally falling in love with the right person is the most freeing thing in the entire world. That giant question mark you walk around with in your heart... that thing is gone. It's gone with the first time you lay eyes on your person.

Falling in love with the right person is like having a million words to say and none of them coming to mind because there are so many you have to say; none of them are good enough to explain the way you feel.

There are so many words I could say to explain how dearly I hold this man in my heart but none of them are enough. He is the most beautiful thing in the entire world and I can't imagine being without him.

Finding "the one" makes you wish that every single person in the entire world gets to feel the way you feel because it's such an incredible feeling.

Finding "the one" is freeing.

Finding "the one" is love.