Marriage Moats-Unclose

Published: Mon, 05/27/19

Unclose

Caring for Marriage

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself as Spring opens her first rose.

E.E. Cummings

Spring is a time of opening. There is a vulnerability in being open. You can be bruised, or found out. Yet being closed keeps us from being close. How does that work?

John knows a lot about me. He has been studying me for a long time. He likes to play a little game where we finish each other's sentences. It is fun to be understood well.

I know a lot about him too. I have learned which things he will probably do right away and which will sit on the shelf. I have gotten brazen about saying yes to things that involve both of us even before asking him.

But he is okay with it. He gave me the key to his heart long ago, and I have kept it in a special place. Next to mine.

Nothing labors more for the opening of the interiors of the mind more powerfully and easily than true marriage love, for the soul of each intends it.

Conjugial Love 302

Love,
Lori

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