Every Love Story is Beautiful, but Ours is My Favourite - Cute Shabby Chic Style Gift Sign for Husband, Wife, Partner, Boyfriend or Girlfriend

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We spent more and more time together as the marriage day grew close. The wedding was what my dreams as a little girl were made of and much more. I would like to write about our honeymoon but then that would be another story as it was filled with other adventures like our money and passports getting stolen on the day of our return in Paris. So, as I sit here after eight months of marriage, after my husband has just left for the first sail after marriage, I would like to add that life of a merchant navy wife is hard filled with days when the only person to understand you in and out is far away. There are times when you have to take care of your family and home even when you feel miserable. Where a lot of nights are filled with crying in your room alone as your heart aches when the distance grows too great. But it is also filled with pampering from your in-laws because they know you are lonely, with support from your husband even though he’s not with you, with surprises and with hope of the times to come when the sailor comes home laden with gifts. You also know that you will come out as a stronger person. And the cherry on the cake is that this time I get to join my husband on the ship after a month or two. There is a delightful quote which goes like, “Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favourite”. So, it’s not surprising when I state that the story I cherish the most is the story of my sailor and I. Filled with laughter, ups-downs, adventures and most of all love. Without further ado I shall start right from the beginning. The Beginning Of Sailor and His Queen Love I had just received a call saying I was approved for the rental I had applied for. The landlord, who turned out to be as sleazy as they come, liked my spunk and willingness to work despite personal issues in my life. A little over the top for someone who didn’t know me well. Fast forward a couple of months and it was May, by this point the idea of love being a pipe dream became reality. I had been on a few dates, but most (if not all) just wanted ‘friends with benefits’, I wanted a companion — someone to spend my life with.

We got engaged in a fairytale ceremony and got showered with the blessings or our elders. The whole night was filled with dancing and cheerful celebration. The hard part was when the time came for him to leave for his duty for a long seven months. A girl who had always scoffed at long distance relationships previously was standing at the airport bidding her fiancé a teary goodbye. I’m sure every sailor queen knows the feeling of saying goodbye to her sailor before he leaves for his duty. How heavy the heart feels as if filled with cold searing lead but how do you tell a man not to leave for his second love- the sea. My First Time Away from Him My mother loved him the moment she met him. How could she not? He is an honest and honorable man whose world crashes down when I am sad. My father was impressed by him as well. Prateek and I were overjoyed as these things went without a hitch. In no time our parents fixed our engagement date before he was meant to leave for his sail. After the engagement date was fixed various people tried to discourage my family and I by declaring things like, “Sailors are not loyal to their wives” or “Being a sailor’s wife is a very tough life” and many more distasteful comments. It was hard for me to relate Prateek with any of those statements. I got unhappy whenever anyone made such assumptions about the merchant navy life without even meeting him once. Luca is Marcello’s equally charming cousin. His flirty, goofy sense of humor endeared him to me from the start as he pursued the much more reserved, introverted Evangelia (Gabi’s younger sister). Their love story doesn’t stand in the shadow of Gabi and Marcello’s; it’s totally different and holds its own over the course of the series. The moment they finally admit their feelings for one another is so worth the wait! It’s hard to remember the lonely feeling I had twenty years ago at this time. I was alone having left my husband the year before and had been living in a motel room with two small children until I could save enough money for a place of our own.We had told our parents about each other as things were getting serious between us. The dates were becoming more frequent and without saying it out loud in words we knew we were thinking about marriage. The day was set to meet his parents and younger brother at a charming Indian restaurant within the lush green central Delhi. I was shivering with nervousness but his parents tried to make me feel right at home. After some time I started having fun as they tried to know me better and calmed my nerves. Marcello and the two other leading men of this “fan-freakin-tastic” (as Gabi would say) time-travel series are my book boyfriends. They can make me swoon any day, and I’ve never been able to decide just who is my favorite. So **obvi** Marcello and his lady-love—the fiery, fierce, and hilarious—Gabriella (Gabi) Beterinni had to be at the top of this list. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, chances are you have already read about my love of Connilyn Cossestte’s books. If you read my review of her 2019 release, Until the Mountains Fall, you will remember that I said it’s my favorite book of hers yet, and that IS the honest truth! I loved Rivkah and Malakhi’s beautiful love story so much! However, for the sake of this list, I decided to go with a different set of her characters whose story stands as an example of what true love looks like through every season of life. NOTE: The River of Time is in my Top 3 favorite series EVER, and it won’t be giving up that spot anytime soon. I could literally fan-girl over it for hours if you let me. I plan on writing a spotlight post on it some day—I promise it won’t take you hours to read it, though. Ha! Lia and Luca from The River of Time Series by Lisa T. Bergren Luca is the one on the bottom. The other fella is Lord Greco–he’s amazing but he didn’t make the list because I never did quite like Alessandra (his eventual love interest). Maybe I was just jealous? 😉

Next is another unlikely pair—a doctor from the 21st century, and an early church leader from the 3rd…So there we were, my son, daughter and myself, settling into a one bedroom house. It was quaint and supplied with more living space than we had been used to for the previous year. I spent Valentine’s day alone, my ex-husband had a weird schedule and would take the children from Sunday to Tuesday every week.