Three Little Words

You know how when somebody says something, the impact of those words affect you much more than the person speaking them? That's how it usually is with those three words, "I love you." Truth be told, so many people have told me those words in the past. My abusive dad, my ex-boyfriend, my ex-best friend who turned out to be the world's biggest....well, you get the point. And in all of those situations, before they turned their backs on me...they always told me that they loved me. Those three words were common between us. And I always believed them...until they betrayed me and very nearly ruined my life.

But there have been times, too, when those three words have been said to me, and lived out, even to this day. I believed them, believe them, and always will believe them. My wonderful mother, my ever protective older brother, and, as you will see, the love of my life, have all said those three little words to me and, though it took loads of trust for me to be able to believe them, my life has been turned around because of those words.

My life, it was a wreck. Still is. But it became a better wreck when I met Zachary Elliots.