I found this coloring print out from the Tried and True blog and at first really liked it and as well as what Young House Love did with it. It super cute, right? So I printed it out and Pretty Boy and I (who both love to color) both colored one, and then I started thinking about what it really said. "I love everything about you." "Everything!?" I thought. No, that's most definitely not true and most definitely unrealistic. I love Pretty Boy, but there are times when I don't love everything about him and I think that's perfectly normal and acceptable in a relationship. (Think beer breath and other bodily functions that boys like to laugh about. Think borrowing my car and leaving the steering wheel sticky, every time! Certainly not deal breakers, but certainly not loveables either.) I think it is an unattainable goal to set to expect someone to love everything about another at all times. It also connects over-arching love with small-detail love. That sounds like setting one's self up for failure.
So the sentiment I agree with but the exact wording, I do not, and I decided to rewrite it to embrace how Pretty Boy and I want to express our love: "I love everything that you are." And that's true always. Even when he has really bad gas.
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