My brother finds himself in love.\u00a0 It’s weird, once you’ve been there yourself, to see someone you know so well sucumb to the utterly miserable beauty that falling in love is.\u00a0 I can remember it so clearly – the days of wondering if the feeling is mutual, everyone playing it cool so as not to scare the other off with the fact that- if you could have it your way –\u00a0you would be on the phone or face to face 24hours a day with that person, or the feeling that you don’t need to eat or drink or sleep – you only need to be with that other person to be satiated.\u00a0 God, I am so glad I am not there anymore.\u00a0It almost feels like a sickness – but one that leads to, possibly, the greatest experience of your life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I met my husband I was skeptical of all things good.\u00a0 Granted, I had\u00a0my reasons, but still I was pretty much in denial that anything good could come from being around a boy for any extended length of time.\u00a0 We were\u00a0such good friends to begin with that the fact that I was hopelessly in love with him totally crept up on me.\u00a0 I can remember waking up one day, and almost as clearly as realizing that I had to go pee, I realized that I never wanted to spend a day apart from him for the rest of my life.\u00a0 Then, the normal panic ensued and I began to act like I didn’t care – weird defense mechanisms we have, huh?\u00a0 He was feeling it too but neither one wanted to anti up.\u00a0 Thank god we came to our senses and stopped the madness.\u00a0 We were married a year later and, now, we just ache when we see anyone we know trying to break down those barriers.\u00a0 It’s hard, I think, for us to admit that we need someone sometimes.\u00a0 It’s even harder to allow yourself to potentially be rejected.\u00a0 So I’ll just sit and wait and watch and be as loving and supportive to my brother as I can.\u00a0 It sure ain’t gonna be pretty to watch, but hopefully the outcome will be everything he has dreamed it could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My brother finds himself in love.\u00a0 It’s weird, once you’ve been there yourself, to see someone you know so well sucumb to the utterly miserable beauty that falling in love is.\u00a0 I can remember…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-living","category-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}