Love at First Sight...

Flashback 21+ years...

Maybe it was the jet lag. Maybe it was just a side effect of the new adventure I had started. It certainly wasn't a romantic setting or anything I had expected in any way.

But on my first day on the job in Germany, in the office next door to where I worked, I was hit by a bolt of lightning. My heart started pounding harder and faster. I felt giddy. I couldn't speak coherently. I just smiled like a maniac and could hardly take my eyes off of one the to engineers in the department I would be working in. Later, I asked the secretary who was guiding me around if he was single. You have no idea how out of character this was for me. But I was giggly and stupid and this just was not normal.

It has not been an easy relationship. Not the start. Not the adjustments. Dr. Phil has yet to do a segment on cross-cultural relationship difficulties. His producers should call me if he ever does as I have stories.... I don't know if this was "love at first sight". It certainly was the start of something, as we celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary this month. And sometimes, when I am not really thinking about it, something will happen and I will look at him and feel the same feelings, the same giddiness, the same heart palpitations.

Whatever you call it, it's mighty fine.