A Love Letter To Katie Cornwell

To celebrate Valentine's Day, we asked Patch readers to write a love letter to that special someone and let us deliver it. This is Aaron Cornwell's love letter to his wife, Katie Cornwell:

When I look back to when we first met, all that I can think is that it had to be fate. Had my brother not convinced me to join eHarmony at the exact moment he did, we never would have crossed paths. Seeing how happy he was finding love the same way inspired me to give it another shot, and I’ve never looked back since. Nothing else can describe it but fate.

I hadn’t had a great past with love, and I never thought in my wildest dreams I would meet the love of my life with whom I enjoy spending every last second. We lived just miles away from each other and had basically everything in common, which is even more evident that we both joined eHarmony at basically the same time. Yet we had never met.

It only took us a few weeks of talking and one date before I canceled the remaining 11 months of a year-long eHarmony membership (clearly that shows how confident I was when I signed up). To this day I’m just as excited every time I see you as I was to get home and see if you had responded to my questions or latest email. Life was enjoyable again for the first time in a while.

We didn’t have to date for long, just about a year at that, before I decided to pop the question on the 4th of July at your favorite place, Comiskey Park (although that isn’t the name anymore, we won’t talk about that). I had never been able to keep a secret from you and still can’t, but that was the one time I was actually successful. Your whole family knew and I was sure you did too, but being sick came to my advantage that time around.

When I proposed, you made certain it was a complete shock, as you never in a million years would have passed on getting a manicure had you known. If that is a lie, I’m fine with it staying that way to the end of our days.

When we finally got married about a year and a half later, I had seen you at your best and your worst, and you had seen me through the same. Somehow, though, I saw you in a different light from that point on. When I saw you walk down that aisle, you were even more beautiful than I had ever seen (I’m still not sure how that is even possible), and your beauty grows every day.

We may not have had much money, but we still found ways to make that the best day of our lives. It gave me a chance to put those Cornwell genes to use and still ensure everything was perfect and what we wanted by finding those “great deals” I always go on about. The day I married you was by far the best day of my entire life, and I’ll never forget it.

We went from living in an apartment that fit our needs at the time with our kitty to saving up money as the time went by until we stumbled upon the perfect house for us. We had experienced the lows of home-buying after having an offer accepted and then subsequently revoked, and then within a week or two a new one went on the market and we toured and made an offer the next morning, before they were even able to have an open house. If that isn’t fate as well, I don’t know what is.

We spent our first days at the house exactly how we wanted, and then shortly after that added a dog to our family. At that point, the house really began to feel like a home. We could have never done what we did to the house without our families supporting us and helping with tasks we had never even begun to think about almost every day. You may look at houses all the time with everything you could ever ask for inside of them, and even if our home is where we’ll be for now, someday I’ll give you exactly that again. We just need to wait for fate to show its face again.

Every day that I wake up, I’m amazed by how much I continue to love you more and more, when I think that I just can’t possibly love you more than I already do. We truly enjoy each other’s company all of the time, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. You’ve made me a better version of myself, and I’m grateful every single second for that, and I’d like to think I’ve done the same for you too. Any problems that we face, we find a way to resolve and we always do it as a team.

I guess all I’m trying to say is that, Katie, I love you with all of my heart and continue to love you more and more as time goes on. I can’t wait to see what is in store for us next, and I know that whatever life throws at us, we’ll make it through. I was never one to believe in fate, but now I cannot help but be a believer. You are the love of my life, my Valentine, my person and my everything. You are the carrot to my carrot, and keep those peas away from us.

Love always and forever,
Aaron

—Aaron Cornwell

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