Jayme likes to play “The Sims 2” (make note of the generation of the game, anything else is considered not right). It is a game that I play as well, but not recently. One day we were talking about it and I asked her why she didn’t just use the cheat to get all the money. Her response was, “that is half the fun.”

Right now my eyes are tearing up and shivers are running down my back and legs, thinking about what I am seeing in my mind and what I want to write. My thoughts are just a bit ahead of my fingers, don’t worry though, I will get to the mushy stuff.

Now back to the story, I didn’t quite understand, her not wanting to have everything all at once and do whatever she wanted. But for her, building a life, albeit a virtual one, being able to see the struggles, made the successes that much sweeter. That is the kind of woman you want to build a life with.

Right now, we struggle, we endure, but we do it as a “we”. For quite awhile I lamented my position in life, that I was not able to give her everything I felt she needed and deserved. I felt inadequate, that I was not the kind of man she deserved. But as this amazing woman showed me day after day, that she wanted to be nowhere but right next to me. Whether we are struggling or coasting, she wants to be next to me.

So here we are; two people standing, building a life from scratch, from the ground up. It is far from perfect, it’s riddled with cuts, bruises, and tears, but they are ours, and the comfort of knowing that simple fact is inexpiable. I eagerly await the life we will build, the home, the twinkles, the everything with Jayme.

(It should be noted that Pokémon Go came out last week and I totally could have likened this post to being about starter Pokémon, but I didn’t so I think that deserves some mad props)