I fell in love with a boy….
He was a few years older than I was. I hadn’t decided yet to enlist in the Air Force. He was a blond farm boy from Indiana. I met him in California where he drove his truck to, broke down, and moved in with a family who took him in when he was down on his luck. He was so charming. It was a good thing, too, because he didn’t have a job and was basically freeloading off the family he had the fortune of living with. I enlisted in the Air Force and he “let me go”.
I fell in love with a boy…
He was a free spirit. We had fun no matter what we were doing. We even got a pet rat, skied Mt Bachelor in Oregon, and made a model airplane. In the end, we just weren’t going in the same direction.
I fell in love with a boy…
He was such a jerk. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out about it until I married him. He never loved me. He used to say, “You’re pretty, but you’re not beautiful.” He was so verbally abusive that I started to feel trapped by my own inadequacies, although they were likely manufactured by this “boy”. A few years after I left him, I started to breathe again.
I fell in love with a boy…
He was the most beautiful person I ever laid eyes on. I kissed him a million times. He was a part of me in every way. It was just the two of us for many years. My world revolved around him. I think so fondly of him even now, and I miss him like crazy. He was my first experience of unconditional love. He can drive me crazy, and he is bigger than me now, and more hairy, but I still love him.
I fell in love with a boy…
He is my best friend in the whole world. He knows me. He loves me anyway. He also can drive me crazy, but we are still heading down this road together. We are Yin and Yang, Frick and Frack, Bert and Ernie.
I fell in love with a boy…
He is so accident prone. He doesn’t know how to ride a bike yet. He asks me about wind advisories and political parties. He is so smart, but the least observant human being on the planet. He gets to laughing so hard his eyes water and he can’t breathe and that makes me laugh.
My life has been amazing so far, and in no small part to these boys I fell in love with. Even the ones that broke apart for whatever reason shaped a part of who I am today and what I value. For that, I am so thankful.
