on our 107th month anniversary I’m just really grateful and glad to have a partner who really enjoys doing things with me. it is quite uncanny that we have similar strange tastes — like we both love to eat hotpot with lots of vinegar and cilantro. today she managed to find a rare outdoor hotpot restaurant for our dinner which we haven’t had in years. it isn’t easy to exist as a covid cautious couple but i think despite all the precautions and restrictions we still try our best to have fun together. it is also isn’t easy to have a partner who is on the same page in terms of how much we cherish our health, it helps that she’s always telling me she doesn’t feel like she’s missing out on anything by being covid cautious — it is more important for her to be able to do the things she loves. feels like we have been growing up together for the past almost 9 years, and it is just so wonderful to have each other for company in both difficult and joyous times. love, is simply being able to be utterly ourselves with each other, and that same love incubates a space for the other to become. as i become more of my self, the more i understand how much of her love plays a part in my becoming, the deeper my love for her goes. i would be so much less of a person without her, because she sees and knows who i am, before i can recognise it in myself.