The Only Love Of My Heart

It's not so funny, but it's what kept me moving even up until this moment. Remembering the past is still what I have been doing after looking at the present and what is ahead of us in the future.

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Making ends meet is not easy, but my husband has to try every one of his efforts to meet my demands.

I can call him a blessing and someone God has sent to prepare a table before me.

The day we got married, we were finding it difficult to make ends meet. He was just working but not seeing the result of what he was working for. The payback is nothing to carry us throughout the month. Before the month ran to an end, the little he was taking as salary had finished. This was just as a result of the little expenses we had to settle, paying house rent at the end of the year, electricity bills, waste bills, water bills, and the like. All these things have been eating up his money since I was not working.

Finding a job for me to sustain us more than his effort was his priority, but that was not my call. I aimed to be a trader regardless of what, and not to work under someone.

I was ready to make him happy since he had been struggling to make ends meet, providing for me and all my needs.

After a few months, I was pregnant, and it became a tug of war. The pregnancy disturbed me to the extent of making him sober. He was so concerned, even trying harder to make me happy. Seeing me with the pregnancy and with the pains I was going through, he still found it possible to always call me every hour just to monitor my well-being.

The truth was that he cared even in the times when there was nothing. This has been the major reason why I can never let him down in any way.

His struggle continued, and with the place where he was receiving peanuts as salary. I had once asked him to vacate that place, but he just put all his hope in that place. After nine months, I gave birth, and yet, he was still caring and was always making sure that everything was made possible.

Although before I gave birth, it was a serious complication. He never saw that as a hindrance but as a stepping stone to assist me, certainly. With the stress I was going through, he still took a share of it, as he was not resting since I was not.

He would go to work and still rush home to see to my welfare after delivery.

One day, I had to sit him down and tell him, “my sunshine, my rising sun, my magnificent, my all in all.”, he was busy smiling as I was pouring out those words of praise to him.
I hailed him for his efforts and for not letting me down. I praised him for always staying by my side, even when there was nothing. When I was done talking, he turned to me and began to pour out praises also to me. He praised me to the extent of making my head swell.

He also said, “I knew I had nothing, and yet, you stood by me and did not look at what people were saying. With my efforts to make ends meet, you still did not deviate your path from me.” I was so happy having him as my husband. He's the best man I have ever known.

He tried hard to put food on my table even when we were unable to get something tangible. This is the major reason I cannot fall apart from his love. He showed me the true meaning of love.

Presently, he's working in a better place, and although I always assist him, I'm some aspect as a woman. It's what no woman can do. Since he has been there for me, I'm also there for him. That's why I can say that “love is reciprocal.”