Umair has told me multiple times since we left Dubai that he didn’t want to live without me and he didn’t even want to try to. My reply is exactly the same to Umair. Forever, my baby. I will follow you to the ends of this earth. Umair, my love ,my heart , I never want to exist without you.
It’s one of my all time favorite quotes and through the course of Umair and I and our relationship it could not hold more meaning. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away!”
It remains profoundly true every day I find more ways that I love my husband. Just a few of the moments he has taken my breath away.
So when anyone asks about our love story these are the words I have to impart. The beginning of every breath that ever mattered began when Umair started loving me. The moments when he has picked me up and sheltered my heart are simply to many to count. Our honeymoon in Dubai, I came even more to life. I have never known paradise. From simple declarations of afternoon tea or Tim Horton coffee. Umair and I going all around searching for a half and half pizza and we were happy. I didn’t have a clue what all the jazz was about the fountain and then Umair took me there. Lady Gaga “I will never love again” played and it cannot be more truer, Umair a lifetime will never be long enough loving you. The half day tour, I loved our guide his words only added to our paradise. You took my breath away putting your arms around me in the taxi and on the tour bus. Culminating by happiness when you took me to the mosque for the very first time. There was one across from our hotel as well. Our trip to see the Atlantis hotel. The green planet and touching a snake while holding you. The gold souk and the boat taxi. When I look at our journey there is only love more and more love for you that takes my breath away. For a girl who had never seen the world, Umair offered me paradise for our honeymoon. In Dubai, we kissed and held each other constantly, and I only wanted to hold Umair even more, he takes my breath away. Up and down the elevator I wanted him on my skin touching me. I am undone, and utterly and completely in love with my husband. The day I boarded the plane the entire day I felt more and more sadness, I held it in until I was past the first security check point and then cried practically the entire 48 plus hour flight. I cried seeing the couple holding each other on the departure benches in Germany. It should have been Umair and I. I cried because if Umair could have traveled with me we would have taken the layover. The only happy moments the return flight were Umair and I on the phone. The next three days after I got home I didn’t know how I would ever breath again. Since returning to US I have goals I have to achieve the ones that bring Umair and I together forever and legally. I have heard bullshit about the country he is from etc., and truly look at any one of these photos and find a spot where you don’t see two people completely in love. So after the immigration lawyers said more time to prove you two are legit. The only thing I know is I love Umair and I would, will and continue to walk through fire to bring us together in the same country forever.
Forest of Words 