What a difference a year makes.  Our marriage and relationship has brought many challenges, but none like the bombshell you dropped in August and our separation in September.

Why am I dedicating this page to you? 
Because I have always thought we had a love and connection that was forever. 
Because for me the essence of love was meeting you. 
Because I am lost without you and when we are together I am complete. 
I believe that even this rift and hurt can be healed and I have done everything I can for me and our children to recreate our marriage anew. 
This is my burden, until we reconcile or divorce, for my part in the distance in our relationship that brought us to this moment in time.

"Yes, I lost, but I didn't lose the lesson,

NEVER again will I want to tell you how your smile makes my day
And hold back from saying it,

NEVER again will I want to tell you exactly how I'm feeling at that moment in time
And instead just let that moment pass me by.

NEVER again will I take for granted just having you in my life,

NEVER again will I hold back from saying I love you because I'm scared of what your reaction will be,

The worst part is knowing I just might NEVER get the chance to do it all over again."

~ Unknown

So I send you my love and the best wishes for your happiness and I hope that you find it is here with me.  I have given you my love for nearly eleven years and I will continue to be your friend for the rest of our lives and hope that we can grow old together and look back on this time and smile at how foolish we were because the best was yet to come.

For my husband Adrian
Love from Vanessa
14 February 2004