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Natalie and I are deeply in love ... lust as well but we're not here to talk about that.

Whilst marriage was off the cards for quite a while late last year we decided to make a pledge to each other. To symbolise the pledge before AoNZ friends and family we bought rings, which we both lost and have had to replace, LOL.

This is what I said to Nat.

What a surprise for you all, Nat and I are gonna do a thing, prepare yourselves.

Getting married is a road both of us have travelled, many many times.

In fact Nat is only now coming to the end of that particular path, but hasn’t quite stepped off it.

So that road isn’t one we’re gonna hop on just yet … ask us in a few years.

We do however, really want to do something to express our love for each other, so we’re going to, in front of all of you, Nat's family … in this part of the world.

Nat … you … as I write this my heart is thumping so hard, will I be able to find the words of how deep inside me you are?

I could just turn this into a monologue about how we met and the journey we have been on over the past six months.

Some people think that’s quick, we both know it’s been decades coming as we both learnt, grew, prepared perhaps for the time we should meet. And we met.

But a CV of love would be tedious to listen to, and you were there every step of the way so you know it all anyway.

Perhaps listing all the words that float around my heart when I think of you - love, happiness, support, trust, care, fun, adventure, peace, and understanding, to name just a few.

Again, we talk about them every day, we know what it is to be together, and for anyone listening it’s merely a list of words even if we know different.

Maybe espousing the future we will have together is the approach I should take.

The upcoming Papunya times starting in 8 days time, wowsers eh!

The sweeping wide vista of the Australian outback seems to reflect our future, the possibilities are endless, the directions we can travel together are infinite, the challenges out there, but together we will be the venturers in our story.

Our future seems as vast and exciting as the Universe itself - who knows what we’ll discover, where we’ll end up.

All I know is it’ll be somewhere together.

So many ways I could tell you how deeply peaceful I feel when I stand next to you.

So many ways to express my love, desire, and excitement to hold you in my heart.

So many reasons to be standing here holding our hearts in our hands and telling each other, I see no other way but with you.

I will love you, trust you, challenge you, stop to make time to understand, hold you, get naughty with you, and always be the peaceful rock you want to come home to.

Never alone, always together.

 

I give you this ring as a symbol of my support-a sign that I am all-in on this adventure with you. I love you from my deepest, most honest and openness of heart. 

When you know, you know eh!