What have I taught
you about love?
What have you taught me
about love?
Well.
I will tell you exactly
what you taught me
about love,
and you said it on the day
we met,
you told me that God is love
and you had to learn
that God is love
because you couldn't
love anybody
until you understood
what love really was.
And so I guess in terms of
teaching me
through our relationship,
you've always shown me
the love of God,
even when you don't
want to do something.
You know,
you always remind me too,
that God says we must
love each other.
Ain't gotta like each other
all the time,
but we must love each other.
So through
the way you live life
and the things you do for me
and for our
families together.
You have shown me
what godly love really is.
And that's why
I do everything in my power to-
I've learned
not to get upset
over things
that don't matter.
Like, I used to tell my mom,
don't sweat the small stuff,
because in the end,
the love that we share
among each other
is going to make that thing
look like
it was totally silly.
You know, all along.
So we just move on.
And the one thing you notice
I'll come back to it later.
You always do.
I always do.
But you know,
I love you
with every being
of my spirit,
my body, my soul
that God
has given me and said
to love you because I asked
and he
he gave me the gift
I asked for.
Yeah. Well, thank you.
I love you.
I love you too.
Thank you.
I just
that was a easy one.
Do the same for me.
If you could
relive one moment
from our
relationship forever,
what would it be and why?
When we- when you
first came here,
we were walking
on the beach
that night.
And
in that experience,
we dealt with
some fear that I had
and I share them with you.
And it was all about
for me,
the commitment of marriage
at that time.
And
it really told me
something about you
that sometimes I need to
hold back my feelings or my...
how I truly feel
about something
so that I can
always protect you.
And so when
I think about something
that may be troubling,
I got to think twice about
whether I should
share that with you
because I
really don't want to
see that expression
on you again.
It came
a couple of weeks ago.
And you do that.
So I just,
Wow.
yeah,
I know
exactly what you're talking about now.
Okay, yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So that experience
of when we walked on
the beach that night.
Yeah.
That explains a lot.
Oh, for me.
Okay.
Keep me in line.
When you think of the first
time we met,
what do you remember
feeling?
Yeah, that's a good one.
Well, the first time we met,
what do I remember
feeling
other than anxiety?
I felt a spirit of peace
and comfort.
I remember the conversation
we had in Huntsville,
and we walked
and we talked all night
and a thought
ran across my mind:
'Why would I tell
this man all my business?'
Then I said...
Well,
you probably never
see him again.
But you were
so easy to talk to.
I just felt comfortable
in your presence,
and I was like,
I told you to be everything.
I didn't tell you nothing.
But it was
it was very comfortable.
And so I didn't know
what was actually
going on at the time.
But I did feel
a spirit of peace,
and comfort around you.
You just was an easy
person to talk to.
Okay, I don't know how easy this is.
What is something
I don't fully understand
about you?
You think
I'm a people person and
I involve myself
with people.
I think that's just
the nature of my job,
my church
bring it up.
And so I'm involved
with people.
But
you like people
and you like to be around
people more than I do.
And I
I like to unwind
after a day's work
or activity,
and I like quiet moments
that I just kind of
you think I'm trying to,
you know,
not be friendly, but
I take those moments
for myself.
For me, it's just to unwind.
And if I don't do that,
I get frustrated.
And,
you know, so
I like to unwind.
And so when I kind of
go to myself, is...
is for me,
it's like a me time for me,
and I get up in the morning
and I go
and all during the day
I'm active,
but at night
I like to unwind.
And you know that if
when I come home
and if I'm not
going back out
for another engagement,
the first thing I do
is take off my clothes
and relax.
And you know,
there's some shows
I watch over and over again
because it helps me
to unwind.
You say: 'Why? You've seen it
100 times!'
Well, it helps me to unwind.
So yeah.
Gotcha.
Oh!
Now we're getting really
serious now.
What have I taught you
about intimacy?
Nothing? Are you saying nothing?
what have you taught me?
Well, no,
I can't say because I...
I was- I'm always a,
I don't know,
I use this term for myself
because it
doesn't apply
directly to me, ADHD,
but I am so busy.
It's kind of like
the ADHD mentality,
but you have taught me
the value of
the still quiet moment,
which you talked about
a few minutes ago.
Time for yourself.
I didn't used to take time
for myself.
I'm always dealing
with somebody
else's needs or concerns
or cares
or looking out for them.
But what you just said
a few minutes ago,
if you've noticed
and you probably haven't
because you're so busy
right now,
but I'm home alone a lot
now, so I take time
for myself.
And not only do
I take time off
myself, I'm finding
more and more time
to give to God right now.
So we have our moments
first thing in the morning,
sometimes during the day,
and especially when I walk.
So I'm
getting the value of that.
That time
you're talking about
to yourself
because, you know,
I do like to
be around people.
I do want to
celebrate holidays.
I do want to do
all these things.
But yeah,
when I was coming home
from work,
I was just wiped out
and, you know,
the brain games
and so forth and so on.
But that wasn't really
even time to myself,
but I'm learning the
value of time to myself.
So you've taught me that.
Okay, I take credit.
Thank you.
I'll give it to you.
Okay.
If this were to
be our last conversation,
what's something
you never want me to forget?
That I love you.
Yeah,
yeah.
I don't ever
want you to forget that
I love you. So.
And if this is our
last conversation
that I wish I would,
I could always
be there for you.
Yeah,
Okay. Okay.
Okay, seal it with a kiss.
Oh, okay baby.
Okay, suga'.
Okay.
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