All good thoughts, my friend. Wonderful writing. I've thought the same thing many times in relation to my late wife, Denise. She wasn't perfect either, but then no one is perfect. And damn was she beautiful, wrong or right, good, bad, angry, sad. Indifferent, even. I just loved her, that's all. And like you, I've also noted the imperfect parts of our relationship in order to lessen the pain of losing her, as if saying to myself, you see, she wasn't THAT good. But she was, actually. Such thoughts were like trying to cover a cannonball-sized wound with a BandAid. Never worked, never would've worked.
All good thoughts, my friend. Wonderful writing. I've thought the same thing many times in relation to my late wife, Denise. She wasn't perfect either, but then no one is perfect. And damn was she beautiful, wrong or right, good, bad, angry, sad. Indifferent, even. I just loved her, that's all. And like you, I've also noted the imperfect parts of our relationship in order to lessen the pain of losing her, as if saying to myself, you see, she wasn't THAT good. But she was, actually. Such thoughts were like trying to cover a cannonball-sized wound with a BandAid. Never worked, never would've worked.
Thank you, my friend. And very well said on your part! I get the feeling that this is yet another circumstance in which you and I are not alone.
She’s a bad ass angel