Love is…
September 28, 2006
Last night I was laying in bed text messaging my husband. The lure of text messaging has long escaped me. If you want to talk to me pick up the phone and call me, like we used to do back in the old days. Or email me, even better.
Rob was enroute to NYC for an early morning meeting, having delayed his departure until after the boys’ baseball practice. The tunnels make phone reception spotty, and so we channeled our inner adolescent selves and sent text messages back and forth.
That’s love, right there. I am not sure how you photograph that. The weekends given up, the adult pursuits that are left by the wayside, the leaving work early so that you can coach the team, the working late on other nights to make up for it. Riding the train into the city at 11:00 at night rather than miss any of it.
Love is spending an hour text messaging back and forth, typing with your thumbs like a 12 year old girl arranging a sleep-over, when a 2 minute phone conversation could have covered it all, and then some.
Love is still wanting to talk to the person you married the very last thing before you fall asleep, even after 15 years.
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September 28th, 2006 at 10:09 amVery, very sweet.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:13 amAw, how sweet. What a good wife you are.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:17 amNabby and I text all the time, and it drives me crazy. But I wouldn’t give it up for anything.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:18 amthat’s really sweet. all the best…
September 28th, 2006 at 10:22 amHow is it that your text message made me tear up?
Sniff.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:23 amvery sweet
September 28th, 2006 at 10:37 amYou are blessed.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:39 amyup thats love!
September 28th, 2006 at 10:39 ammy husband and i use instant messaging when he’s a work. I probably drive him crazy….but that’s my job.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:54 amYes! LOVE technology today!!! My husband is in the Navy and when he’s out to sea, email is the MOST wonderful thing in the world! At least now I can “talk” to him everyday, whereas before sometime it would be 3 weeks before I got a letter in the mail!
LOVE IT!
September 28th, 2006 at 11:18 amvery sweet.
I can never make the text messaging work right. but I IM my husband from upstairs to downstairs. that’s geek love. or just my sad life.
September 28th, 2006 at 11:18 amWe text all day long while at work. We’re so sappy!
Love the post!!
September 28th, 2006 at 12:33 pmI love people who openly love their husbands instead of trashing them. So sweet!
September 28th, 2006 at 12:37 pmMy hubby and I met on the internet. After a three month email-only introductory period, we met face to face, and a month later moved in together. He got transferred to another state shortly thereafter, so we survived a six-month long distance engagement via IM’ing each other multiple times a day. Once we were re-united and then married, we got cell phones to text message each other at work. To this day, if we have relationship problems, we actually resort back to the email thing. Somehow, we can speak honestly to each other through writing, and have done so for so long that very little is misinterpreted by the other. In our relationship, technology is not only wonderful, but almost imperative!
September 28th, 2006 at 12:44 pmAbsolutely right! My husband and I text when the plane I happen to be on lands — it’s amazing, but it starts to vibrate almost immediately.
September 28th, 2006 at 12:51 pmAwww, I love it! And it makes me feel better to know that this never ends. Josh and I still miss each other during the day.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:26 pmWe don’t text message but we sit on the couch and email each other on our laptops. Like what sites we like or files we need. Crazy, huh!
Amy
September 28th, 2006 at 1:26 pmI think you’re really lucky to have such a great relationship with your husband–especially since you have kids! My husband and I struggle with this quite a bit. You’re very blessed!
September 28th, 2006 at 1:28 pmThat’s a great love thursday message….as I sit waiting for the phone to ring with news from my husband who’s en transit tonight.
September 28th, 2006 at 2:42 pmAWWW! How sweet.
September 28th, 2006 at 3:07 pmWith so many kids I’m glad to hear you guys are so solid….
September 28th, 2006 at 3:26 pmnice love Thursday to you.
We don’t do text “message-ing” but we do say “I love you” nearly every night before nodding off to sleep . . . even after 43 years of marriage! That’s something I hope I never get bored with. Sweet post, Chris.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:36 pmI soooo feel you on this Chris!
Every weekday morning of our seven year marriage, my husband has kissed me goodbye on the cheek as I slept before he left for work. He kisses three times. Once for each word of “I Love You.”
He’s priceless.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:24 pmI’ve just discovered your blog recently. You say what I’m thinking an awful lot! that’s awfully goodstuf. And text messaging works when all else fails. We all love it! I’ll write more to you when I’m sober, but in the mean time, know that what you write touches so many…all around the country..and no doubt the world. Congratulations on doing a wonderful thing.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:46 pmYou guys are vomitously cute. Maybe in the future love could include buying you a smart phone with a qwerty keyboard so it would be easier to text?
September 29th, 2006 at 1:12 amAw, sweet.
I love catching Pastormac online when he’s at a meeting or at work so we can Instant Message back and forth.
September 29th, 2006 at 2:50 amTouching -
What a nice thing to do.
Cas
September 29th, 2006 at 9:58 amHow are your thumbs?
I completely agree with your last statement. I’ve been so spoiled by my husband not traveling much recently. And then he goes out of town this week with a nearly dead cell phone (and no charger). He called me on the hotel phone ($$$$!) to say good night still.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:25 pmSo true! You are fortunate!
September 29th, 2006 at 1:39 pmthat is so sweet!
September 29th, 2006 at 7:24 pmSO sweet! Hubby texts me several times a day, though it’s usually about how much he wants to get in my pants, or if he should pick up milk.
September 30th, 2006 at 8:52 amAw, very sweet!
September 30th, 2006 at 10:15 amThat is love! You made me feel all warm and fuzzy.
September 30th, 2006 at 10:40 amTexts are the best, especially the ones that are just to say “I love you.” Sweet post!
September 30th, 2006 at 5:37 pmI’m delurking - just in time to say that I love texting with my hubs or my daughter. Sending goofy pictures to each other too: a shot of my shoes, or of the dog, or any ridiculous thing to make each other smile. Yes, it’s love.
October 1st, 2006 at 9:58 pmThat’s adorable. We don’t text ($$!) but he will log on gmail at work (FD) and send a message to me. I still get giddy about it.
Oh, nerdiness.
October 2nd, 2006 at 2:35 pmSometimes my husband sends such the perfect message for me that day…the one thing I really needed to hear….and I think “God I love that man”. And then I save it. It never gets erased from my phone. I like days like that.
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:52 am