It’s only been less than a month since B dropped the D.I.V.O.R.C.E bombshell and I struggle daily. Sometimes I’m mad, sometimes glad for the changes that might result, sometimes I am scared and sometimes I feel strong and ready for change. I guess I am just feeling all the emotions that someone married 29 years and staring divorce in the eye might feel.
In an never ending list of things I am trying to do to remind myself to honor what we have/had and to remember the love we shared in the past as we try to get “back there”; I am listening to songs that remind me of where we have been and where we might go towards in the future. They are songs that give me hope, bring back memories and spark the kind of love that we had when we first met (most of them anyway). I would like to share them with you.
The first song, Thankful by Jennifer Hanson, is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard about loving your spouse and being thankful for their presence in your life. We played this at our 25th Anniversary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKuP_r7_BU4&list=PLRoCqzmCCwWhApWArifH9MACTaSG41Js3&index=5
Another song which speaks to me is Hold Me by K.T. Oslin whose lyrics convey the difficulties of a long time marriage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsYIAS1pdw
And then there is “OUR” song that takes me back to when we met in the 1980’s. When I hear it I see B in the purest of light, with a filter that eliminates any blemishes. I see a relationship that I believed would last forever with two people deeply in love with one another. Joe Cocker you are missed and so is that lovely passion of a new relationship that I remember with such happiness and pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uhub5jm1LY
And “OUR” long ago songs for a romantic night…geez I can barely listen to them now without getting a tingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM66X55cdSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-Dy3puDoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6QZn9xiuOE
Right now, another old favorite of mine has given me pause. We always used to sing the “Oh sweet darlin’ I give you the best of my love” with love and passion but now the other more basic meaning of the song is making itself known to me. The song is Best of My Love by the Eagles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaO-kgG7eCQ
And Love Will Keep Us Alive by The Eagles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTgzp4tp28
Get Here by Brenda Russell says what I just want to say to B. Get Here..get back to us. Get back to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrdXGLkQtg
The song that reminds me of the important things and gives me hope. Thanks Miss Eden!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrdXGLkQtg
Of course I do have my down moments and when I do my heart responds to Un-Break My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Rch6WvPJE
And when I am just plain pissed and can’t see the forest through the trees (and mostly just because I love Beth Hart) So sultry, sexy and raw! I could easily have sex to this though B may not like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K67Ew-ERxyA
And this is the song that I pray will be us having survived this crisis and our kids off on their own. Sure we will be old but I think we can still have a lot of kick in the sugar pot! Thanks Zac Brown Band for giving me something to hold on to.
Gardy Loo Pismire 