The Unchosen Mate
“It’s not a choice in that I feel like I don’t have a choice, if that makes sense… with you, it’s not an emotion that I can retract. I can’t help it. Falling in love with you was effortless--maybe too easy. Like one day it wasn’t there and the next day it was, as natural as anything else in the world.I still felt like me. Nothing had changed about who I was or how I thought, just how I felt about you. And part of me believes that with you, it’s like for the first time in my life, there’s a permanence to it. An inability to be without that feeling, to not wake up and feel it in every bone of my body, consumed with the reality that is you and how wonderful you are. Because with you, it’s only