by James M Sandbrook
Love:
So much pleasure comes from feeling secure with the one that you love and trust.
You can tell when you are loved by the way that you are spoken to, and how you are treated in general. The words that others use to describe you show you how much they care, how much they feel about you, whether they respect you, and if they love you with a genuine tender heart and soul.
People who respect us show us that respect when they listen to us unconditionally and let us have our say without interruptions and with care. Genuine love is freedom. Freedom to express yourself completely and totally and without shame or fear of being reprimanded for one’s thoughts, feelings, desires or beliefs.
It is a pleasure to be in love.
Pleasure is being greeted by a hug and a kiss.
Pleasure is being held for the longest time like you are a package that completes your partners day and brings a certain spiritual bliss and contentment to their life.
Pleasure is being missed, even for the smallest amount of time.
Pleasure is being asked your opinion about everything, even if you have no idea about it – they want your views because they value your input in their life.
Pleasure is simply walking the street side by side and you feel his or her hand searching for your hand and then holding it gently, yet firmly, like you belong together forever.
Pleasure that you have a best friend who will not leave to get married but will stay with you forever because this person is who you married forever.
Pleasure in feeling important to someone, finally, sigh 
Pleasure in waking up a dreadful mess but being hugged and loved like a treasure.
Pleasure in sharing the news, sharing feelings, and stories of the past, and laughs of good times, silly times, and of life.
Pleasure is doing whatever you want to do together because you are adults and are together – it is your life now.
Pleasure is knowing that you are where God wants you to be.
Tears of pleasure when you see the one person that makes you feel that you have found love, finally. Truth is in love. True love means voluntary commitment, being responsible, and making an effort because you care to make an effort.
People who are truly in love never have to ask about the other person’s love, because they know, they feel the love in all contact with the other person. True love is obvious, it does not have to be said, it shows and is felt emotionally and gratefully by the receiver of the others genuine affections.
A child knows if the mother loves he or she, because of how she treats the child, and wants to be with the child, and hows she listens to her child respectfully, and how she shows unselfish commitment to the child.
Marriage is like that too. You can feel it so that you know it. If you have to ask, then you are unsure, and that is not a good sign.
Love making is an all day event, and it is a 24 hour commitment to one another, and a true friendship of two kindred spirits.
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice
(Tony Asher – Brian Wilson)
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we’ve been spending
I wish that every kiss was neverending
Wouldn’t it be nice
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldn’t be a single thing we couldn’t do
We could be married
And then we’d be happy, Oh wouldn’t it be nice!
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“The best is yet to come”
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All the best from James M Sandbrook.
September 1, 2014.