Old-Fashioned Promises

[mbarrick]

Elaine and I made a promise to each other today. We made a promise about where we want our relationship to go. We made a promise about what we want out of our lives and how we each see the other in that picture.

We both know that it is going to take time to gain confidence that we can both keep this promise. We both know that life isn't always easy and doesn't always go to plan, and it takes time to ensure that a promise like this can stand up to the vicissitudes of mundane fortune. We plan to put in that time and the effort it takes to build a really solid foundation. Right now we are both working to become the people we need to be both separately and together, and some of that has been very difficult to do and there is more hard work to come. We don't know how long it will take, but we both know why we want to. This a promise to stay on the same path to the same end.

There is a word for binding to this kind of solemn promise, but like so many things in these modern times it rarely gets used the way it used to be meant anymore.

We're engaged.

Comments

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear this!!!

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

that's the way it was meant to be, and i wish you you both all the best along this journey- you both deserve so much happiness. i remember how happy you two can be together, and hopefully you will find your way back to that, only this time may it be deeper and surer. much love to you both!

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

Whoa, awesome! Congratulations!

[r-lex.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to both of you, from the bottom of my heart. Reading this made me very, very happy.

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

:)

[tnkgrl.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :)

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

Congrats and good luck!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

That is fantastic news -- congratulations to you both!

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats to you both! Being the softy that I am, tears started welling up in my eyes reading your post.

[lilitha.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you both. Being the softy that I am, tears started welling up in my eyes when I read what you wrote.

(oops, forgot to sign in the first time I left a comment)

[dark-sphere.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

I am so glad to hear this!!

[sciencequeen.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic! I really wish you both the best.

[ladyvermath.livejournal.com]

Congrads! *hugz*

thank you

[(Anonymous)]

omg.. good work, man