A sweet place to fall.

“She doesn’t have to do much to get my attention. She doesn’t have to do much to get me interested. She doesn’t have to do much to get me in love. She doesn’t have to do much to keep me aroused. She doesn’t have to do much to make me forgive. She doesn’t have to do much to make my day. She doesn’t have to do much to bring me back home. She doesn’t have to do much to please me. She doesn’t have to say much to get my help. She doesn’t have to do so much to keep things going with us.” – ACT

#MyStory

“Dear David,

I have an amazing fairy tale-like adventure to share with you. I call it a fairy tale because I feel like the star in my own romantic movie. It all happened in Cape Coast, when I was a student at UCC. And it was during the era of internet Café’s. I was going to the Café’ to browse porn. I started with the normal drill, open sites for football league results, type ‘Yahoo dot com’ and pretend to be checking my email. Yahoo opened, but an account hadn’t been signed out. Till date, I still can’t believe that I was able to find such an amazing woman from this silly act.

I did not sign out the account because it was in a lady’s name. Nice name too. I checked her inbox messages, read them, about 20 of her messages, before checking her sent messages too. I wanted to know what she had been up to… What had she been telling people, etc. From her conversations, she was a decent girl. She was young too. A crazy idea came to mind to send a message to my email address using her account. Lol! I logged out after message was sent to me. I watched a few porn sites before going to my hostel.

4 days later, I went to the Café to check my email. She had left me a message, asking who I was and explaining why she could swear on her life that she did not send me that message. It was a nice reply. I wrote back, introducing myself and asking her to do same. 3 days later, there was a reply, a lengthy one, which I really enjoyed reading. I replied, and the back and forth continued, until we accidentally met face to face at a wedding at the interdenominational church at Science. It was not an accidental meeting. The day I read her messages, she had indicated to a friend to be attending another friend’s wedding at that church, on that date. I wrote the date down and decided to bump into her.

At the wedding, I called her phone. I made sure we had exchanged numbers the week before that Saturday’s wedding, in our email correspondence. I was seated at the back of the church, calling her phone. I knew she wouldn’t pick so I was calling as many times to see who would get up from the congregation to walk out to answer a call. And then all of a sudden, there she was, on her feet, finding her way to the back to answer the call, my call. I got out too, to talk to her on the phone. We turned towards each other and it was really us. Lol! How did I get so lucky?

When I realized it was her, my first words to her were, “Oh my God, you’re so beautiful.” I am still smiling at the memory of that day. It really was our lives and I couldn’t believe it was happening to us. She was what I wanted. We decided to close from the wedding at that particular time to focus on us. I pretended it was a coincidence and had to come up with a story to know the groom. She thought I was funny because everything I said or did made her laugh. My wife gets what I am about. I felt so happy that day, Dave. She makes me very happy.

We’ve been married for 18 years and I have never been tired of her. Probably the reason why I see no need to cheat on her. We sit and chill like crazy, and we are okay with that, without needing anything else. We’re a simple family of four, and we cherish what we have. She’s made me want to grow into something great. She’s always telling me, ‘for the first time in her life, she’s been seen and wanted and valued and loved by a man’. In her past, she had never gotten love, respect, truth, appreciation, friendship and support in return when she gave it all out to her exes.  Dave, I will drop everything just to be there for my wife.

She doesn’t have to do much to get my attention. She doesn’t have to do much to get me interested. She doesn’t have to do much to get me in love. She doesn’t have to do much to keep me aroused. She doesn’t have to do much to make me forgive. She doesn’t have to do much to make my day. She doesn’t have to do much to bring me back home. She doesn’t have to do much to please me. She doesn’t have to say much to get my help. She doesn’t have to do so much to keep things going with us…

She doesn’t have to do much.”