There is Fear in Love

They say fear is a choice.. Is that really true? Do we really have a choice? I feel like no matter how much we try to convince ourselfs

that fear is optional it is always there lurking in the shadows waiting for our most vulnerable moment to sink its teeth in and take away any glimmer of hope and belief in something we may have. I have never believed in love so much and all at once have been so afraid to lose it than at this very moment, as type this I reflect on the choices I have made these past two almost three years in my love life. I found what I knew was the perfect guy for me, yet time and time again I sabotaged it like there was no tomorrow. Its like trying to build a house of cards and knowing that you'll blow it down before you get to the second section or something similar. Fear has made me hurt the only person I cared about more than anyone that walks this earth dare I say. He makes me giddy and gives me butterflies just by looking in my eyes, it has been almost three years but he still gets me like that. He gets who I am, all the good and bad parts of who I am and all that I could be if I want to.. how in the world can someone believe in me this much I have asked myself this question the moment he encouraged me endlessly to pursue what I loved instead of a desk job that pays more than well enough. Why is it that we so often take for granted the things life gifts us, things that at the very moment we receive them we can hardly believe they are within our grasp. All the things I didn't know I could have suddenly came running at me one day, he was one of those things. The thought and fact alone of being completely happy so happy that I didn't care what anyone had to say or what they thought I should instead be focusing on.. all those extra comments that played a big part in my life for so long were no longer in center stage of my life. I was all consumed by the love this love that in my opinion was nearly impossible to find anymore or even better no longer existed. He was and continues to be my idea of perfection yet for some reason it took me this long to realize that all the time I second guessed the fact that I was so happy and kept reminding myself that people don't have it that easy in love.. I kept asking myself is this really it? Do i really have everything in this person? How could it be? These questions would circle my head so often. I was always looking for something wrong, and having come from divorced parents I always I feel has been a big factor of why I was so scared to be walked out on. Sure my grandmother raised my mom alone along with all her siblings and she didn't need a man she made more than enough not to need one, and my mother for so long was the same accounting paid off very well until she suddenly decided to re-marry and quit working; or as I like to call it having a piece of paper that proves how long and hard you worked and not doing anything with it. Since the end of August and the Beginning of this one I have come to the realization that I alone sabotaged my fantastic relationship because I was afraid of giving it my all and ending up like so many women do. When the fact is that he is all that I could have ever asked for, he knows me like no one ever will and like I quite frankly wouldn't want anyone to know me, he is kind enough to hold me in his arms at night and not let go until the morning, he looks into my eyes with fearless and scared all at once because I have hurt him, he is my best friend the true best friend I had always searched for but never could find, and he is the person that I want to continue to wake up to everyday. Just the other night he brought up a little moment from the early stages of our relationship and a week or two ago he did again.. Here I was asking myself.. Who knew that we both still remembered all those little moments that became so much more. I always thought I was the one who thought of that anymore but then it hit me that .. that was impossible because one thing I have always greatly appreciated about this fantastic guy I fell in love with was his sensitivity and ability to sit and talk like no one else can about love and all the little things that make it.  And If he was to read this, to him I say dear love of mine, I have taken you for granted more times than you will ever deserve and for that I will eternally be sorry but you must know that you are more than I wanted and expected to ever find and now that I have I hope that you will find it in your heart to truly give me the chance to make it up to you and always be by your side, and that I look forward to growing old with you (if you'll let me) , Because I know being with you will never grow old. And to be able to have your hand to hold through this crazy life.