I am just as guilty as any girl of having her dream wedding and house planned out to the very last detail on Pinterest. I have sat with my friends and discussed color schemes and what flowers will look best for my dream wedding (Sunflowers and daisies are still my flowers of choice). When and where I will have this dream wedding (Fall and my childhood church with the reception outside to follow). I have all of these fantastic dreams and hopes that one day they will come true. I have faith in my heart that God hears my prayers at night when I pray for my future husband and future family. I have prayed for my husband to be a man I can laugh, love, live, and grow closer to God with. I have prayed for my future children to all be born happy and healthy and to live long and happy lives. But with all of these prayers being said, I recently realized that there are special things I should be praying that my future husband will understand to help make these dreams a reality.

Dear future husband,

I pray that you are able to love me even with all of my faults (And to be honest, there is a rather long list of them). I hope you are able to understand how important my family is to me; I mean I honestly am probably the happiest when I am surrounded by them even if they are extremely loud.

I hope you understand that I do not trust anybody, My trust has to be earned. You can thank my past relationships for this. If you lie to me once, I won’t even trust you when you tell me that you love me.

I hope you understand that I am probably the worlds worst at hiding my emotions. I can be trying to hide whenever I am upset, but anybody can tell how I feel just by the look on my face.

I hope you understand that I love to have stupid conversations. I mean we could talk about which Rugrats character is our favorite and I would be perfectly content ( Chucky,  if anybody was wondering). I truly don’t care what we talk about, just please talk to me and don’t shut me out.

I hope you understand that I get in moods where I simply don’t like to be around a lot of people. If you asked me if I would rather stay home and watch movies or go out and party; my answer is simple. Would you prefer scary or romantic comedy?

I hope you understand that I will want to save any stray animal I see. Like one time I found a stray cat in the edge of our yard and ended up nursing it back to health ( her street name is Mama Kitty, but her legal name is Gypsy and I have had her for nearly 4 years).

I hope you understand that I absolutely love to hunt and fish, but I refuse to take the fish off the hook or skin the deer by myself. And if you ever go hunting or fishing without asking me to go, I will most likely get my feelings hurt.

I hope you understand that anytime somebody raises their voice at me I get upset and either cry or raise my voice back. And to tell you the truth, I’m not sure which one is more terrifying.

I hope you understand that I love to watch scary movies, but will probably hide behind you pretty much through the entire thing. But in the end I will act like I wasn’t that scared.

I also hope you understand that I will love you more than anyone ever has, and ever will. I have been lied to, so you will never have to worry about me doing that to you. When I am in a relationship, I am 100% committed. There will never be a day when you have to worry about me being unfaithful to you.

I came to a realization that before I could ever even imagine getting married, these are just some of the things in my life that will have to be understood by the man that decides he one day wants to marry me. I know it may be a while before I ever find him, but I have faith that he is somewhere out in this world. But please Future Husband, just understand these things.