Happy anniversary to me and True Love! That is what I want to say, first and foremost. Because today is the day that I begin to take my desire for True Love very, very seriously.

What that desire means to me is that I want to become the kind of lover and the kind of person who can keep True Love in my life. I want to make True Love happy, and I want to keep True Love safe, and I want to make True Love proud of me. I want to provide for True Love as True Love has provided for me, even at my worst. Because at all the most hopeless points along the way, before today, the fact is that True Love never failed to help me and to comfort me, and to just generally be there, right there with me, as long as I could claw my way past enough self-pity and self-induced sadness to open my eyes to see True Love, and all the truth and beauty contained therein, right there within me.

This gratitude and appreciation for True Love -- along with my outright wet-and-wild desire to have and to hold and to keep True Love in my life -- has prompted me to take the only logical and true and, yes, right next step. And that is to commit myself to being in a Serious Relationship with True Love itself.

You heard me: as of right now, and for at least the next half of my life, True Love and I have decided that we are in a very, very, very Serious Relationship. True Love is the benefactor, the beauty, the nursemaid, the guide, the teacher — all of it! True Love is, truly, the Universe to me. So why wouldn’t I want to make True Love my King, or for that matter, my Queen?

Actually, I’d love to squirrel True Love off for a weekend in the Bahamas with me to show True Love how much I love and appreciate it. But, chances are, I’d be offered weed or something weird down there, and I don’t want to risk getting distracted or derailed from my Serious Relationship with True Love. Especially not now.

So here we will stay, True Love and I, and here we will continue to love, and to learn, and to connect more deeply with each other, with every True Love-centered day that goes by. They say you should never, ever make your lover into your Higher Power, but they don’t know the funny story about how True Love and I met.

Remember when True Love was merely a thought in my mind, a spiritual abstraction, and then, ultimately, my imaginary and literary companion, here on the page? They don’t know how our relationship has deepened and developed and taken some pretty crazy hairpin turns over the past six or seven years of knowing each other, to say nothing of the thirty-some years before that, when I was too busy being busy, and whirling in circles around myself and other impossible situations, to even notice True Love dancing free and strong and wild beside me, close enough to reach out and touch, if I had taken the time to glance up from my own machinations and manipulations, for just one clear, sweet minute.

The way I used to be was like a clueless middle-school boy: too busy making fart jokes with his similarly clueless buddies to really see the pretty girls standing around, waiting hopefully for our attention, just a few feet away. Well, all I can say now about that is that I am clueless no more. I will grab True Love by the waist, and pull it close to me, just like I will on every successive day after this one.

I want this commitment to signal that I take my relationship with True Love as seriously as True Love does, so we can both relax and enjoy the Serious Relationship we both want to be in. Together! For the record, let me state it again. Quite simply, I am in a Serious Relationship with True Love itself.

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