17 years Sept. 17, 1994-until forever

Well this past Saturday My hubby and I celebrated our 17 year anniversary of being together. Looking back, I think about the day we met and how it started out as and ordinary Saturday, cleaning up my room listening to Blackstreet not doing anything in particular. I remember my best friend telling me about him but me not really being interested because I really didnt like hook ups. For me they never worked out plus I was calling myself being in love with this other dude (not a good choice) who was not loving me back. Thank God he went to jail because I was released to finally allow my best friend to hook me up. Ok that was mean but if u knew dude you would know that is was in no way good for me. Anyway she called with her guy on the line. My hubby was his best friend so they were trying to come up with a way for us to meet. So we're talking and next thing I know they say oh by the way Devitt's on the line. So now I'm irritated cause I didnt have my cute voice on (the one I would usually use when talking to a boy lol) so I just give him this dry hi. He speaks back and asks me if I will come to my best friend's house to meet him. I agree and we hang up, I spend the next couple of hours doing my hair and finding something to wear. Needless to say I wasn't enthusiastic at all. So I get there and we wait for them to come. When they arrived it was three of them. Another one of their friends had come along. I remember coming out on my best friend's porch and there stood her boyfriend and their other friend, my hubby was standing off the porch. I remember thinking his other friend was cute hoping that was him. LMAO (thats so funny now, considering dude is more like a brother to me now) I couldnt really see Devitt because it was dark and he used to like to wear his hat down over his eyebrows. Well we decided to go hang on her back porch since her dad was home and he was occupying the living room. When we got to the back porch I got to see him in the light and I was like he's ok lol. As the night went on we got a chance to talk. He was teaching me how to play spades and I remember looking up into his eyes. He had the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen, there is something about the brown in his eyes. It's soft and sweet, child like and to this day I love looking into his eyes. Well I was hooked from day one. When they left I was begging my best friend to have her guy to hook us up. I told her that's my husband, she was looking at me like I was a fool but I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him that day. Our relationship began that day and I will tell ya it has been a roller coaster ride. We have been through some things but here it is 17 years later and we're still together and in love. That's the amazing part to me. How our love is so real. Our love has matured and its not fake or phony. It's like we went backwards lol the love we had in the beginning was there but it was nonchalant. We loved each other but we were selfish and complicated and uncompromising. And now our love is so beautiful, quiet and calm. I don't think I've cried once all year or had a deep argument that kept us from talking. I remember years ago we could go a week without speaking. And I spent more time crying and complaining than I ever did being happy. So yesterday we spend the whole day lying in each other's arms and he says to me "I will love you forever" I could have just died right then. It was like something right out of a movie seen but it was real because the look on his face and in eyes was so sincere, he loves me from his soul and I know that now. I finally realized how much God love me. Remember the part in Madea's Family Reunion when Cicely Tyson was describing the love she shared with her husband, and How God blessed her with this great love thats the kind of love I've found