She will challenge your perspectives, especially when they don’t align with hers. She will argue with you, and make you see things in different ways. She will teach you the power of balancing two personalities to make a relationship work. And she will let you know when you’re not treating her right,…
Catalog
Marisa Donnelly
Marisa Donnelly graduated Summa Cum Laude from Waldorf University in May 2015 with a B.S. in Secondary English Education, a B.A. in English, and a B.A. in Creative Writing with endorsements in Secondary Reading and Coaching. She is a Midwest-born, West Coast-based writer, poet, essayist and licensed teacher working as a full-time Staff Writer and Editor/Producer for Thought & Expression Co.
She’s dynamic. She has feelings, opinions perspectives and she isn’t afraid to share them with the world.
She will change the way you see relationships. She will change the way you feel when you get up in the morning, making you refreshed and renewed. She will bring more sunshine to your life than there ever was before.
She will love you, and keep on loving you. Even when times get tough, even when you feel defeated, even when you’re scared to love her back the same way. She will love you when you’re tired and worn, when you’re lonely and closed-off, when you don’t think you could ever give her that same amount of…
She will make you laugh and cry, make you learn and grow, make you wonder how you were living on this earth without her all this time.
She will erase the pain from your mind and build new memories. She will teach you how it feels to be cared for, to be trusted, to be safe.
It’s the way she smiles, how it seems to stretch across her face like a child’s—innocent and unconscious. It’s her laugh, and the way that it sneaks into conversation and makes the moment just a little brighter. It’s the way she listens, with her eyes, staring into your soul, making you feel like…
You realize the incredible power and strength you gain from giving yourself to someone. You learn about give and take, and you understand that the world isn’t always terrible, isn’t always broken. You discover who you are with a woman who isn’t afraid of showing her true self to you. You let go, you…
You learn to let go of your insecurity. She wraps you up in all her kisses and comfort, making you think of nothing else but her touch.
You see, for the first time, the beautiful way two souls can love one another. This woman has loved before, and she has lost. She knows what it means to give her soul away to someone. She knows what it means to be vulnerable and unafraid. And she opens herself willingly, beautifully.
The world opens to new possibilities. Suddenly you aren’t afraid of commitments or the future because you’ve been held in the arms of a woman who sees your worth, who has imagined a beautiful future with you.
She’ll share her last slice of pizza. Or even her corner of the pillow, or her half of the bed when you roll over and take too much room. She is so loving and so willing to put your needs equal to, if not more important at times, than her own.
She loves the world, and her kindness and love glows in everything she does. If you’re down, she can bring you up with just that simple turn of her lips. And even if she’s driving you crazy, or the both of you are in the middle of a heated argument, one smile from her makes all the anger fade away.
She’ll love your darkest places. The unforgivable places. The places and memories and regrets and thoughts you keep hidden in the shadowy corners of your mind—she will love those. Her love will be the light that breaks through that darkness, cleans the cobwebs from what you’ve shoved away and tried…
She will fight with you. She will argue, she will challenge you, she will push you, and she will drive you crazy. But this is because she cares about you. She cares enough to go through hell together, just to come out on the other side even closer, even stronger. And she will fight for you. She will…
She is emotional. She has feelings, and she’s not scared of being open and honest about them. She is the type of girl who will peel back your layers and expose the parts of you that you try to keep hidden. She will show you the raw, unedited version of herself and in turn, you will do the same,…
She will continually fill you with her love—on bad days, on tough mornings, after incredible loss, during the most difficult times. With her, you will never feel unsatisfied, never feel lonely. She will be all in, and more.
She will show you what love really feels like. Not the half-love you’ve known. Not the love that fades when times get tough, or when someone new comes along. Instead, she will love you consistently, patiently, willingly, and fearlessly through the ups and downs. She won’t pull away. She won’t run.…