We were sitting in the Hart building upstairs over looking Rexburg through the big bay windows...right next to the gigantic statue of Thor the viking mascot. Romantic huh?
It gets better. I believe we were having our first DTR (defining the relationship). Keep reading Ben was fascinated with this moment in our dating history and it has come up many times including today on skype.
I randomly burst into sobbing uncontrollable tears. Yep. I did. So embarrassing. I had been having these random bursts of sobbing tears, throughout the past 6 months because I was grieving and that's just part of the process.
What's significant about it, is that it was the last time that ever happened. Poor confused Ben. He had no idea why I was suddenly sobbing, he just put his arm around me and pulled me in close and held me until the hurting stopped. Like I said it never happened again ;)
My dear friend and fellow army wife, Mandy, has said it perfectly she saw the way that he healed me. She said it was amazing to see the change in me, he put the spring back in my step! When others have wondered why I married a military man after all that, she knows it's because only a soldier like Ben could ever understand.
I'll never forget the first time I really laughed in front of Ben...I mean a good hard long laugh. He noticed it too. I can still hear him telling me how that was the first time he had ever really heard me laugh, and he liked it. I wish I could remember exactly what we were talking about but he said something so funny that I burst into uncontrollable laughter. It felt great and it has happened many many many times since.
Thanks for making me laugh uncontrollably over and over again!
Aww what a sweet story! Poor Ben, what a good man. But yes, it is true he did heal you :)
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