Love Letters, Most Days

Most days are an uphill climb 

I love my husband 

I miss him all the time

Fight for air

Fight to breath 

Waiting waiting 

In the line

Waiting waiting 

For the next line 

Missing him constantly 

I can’t get him off my mind

I want to feel his hands in mine

His hands on me 

Feel him 

Feel his body breathing next to me

Feeling him hold me deeply into the night

Feel his arms wrapped around me

Hold me tight

Feel him playing with my curls 

Feel the sweetest sleep begin to surround me 

His is my heart 

I love him so much 

We have a beautiful long-distance love story 

I will be so happy when Umair comes home 

We will tell you how we endured the long-distance

The love story to be continued forever 

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Love Letters to My Husband


All the time 

All the time 

Umair is on my mind 

Umair is in my heart 

Umair is in my thoughts 

The very first thought every day

The very last thought each day 

And all the thoughts in between

Even in my dreams 

But this little secret we can keep between you and me 

He has loved me and

I love him eternally, faithfully and devotedly

All the time we spend and spent together 

It’s never enough for me 

You see a little secret 

I love him completely 

I love him truly 

I love him madly 

I love him deeply

All the time spent without him 

I simply never knew 

A love so deep and true

A love that defines me 

Umair protects me 

Umair treasures my heart 

Kissed the wounds others placed on me 

And loved 

And loved me 

Most ardently 

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Love Letters, One Year, and 972-ish days

Umair and I have officially passed the one-year mark of marriage. And I can gloriously say I fall in love with him more and more each day. 

Here is a little tip nobody shares with you 

Being physically apart separate in countries for relationships is hard. Umair and I have oceans too. What they also don’t tell you is that it can absolutely define what love is and can become. Time and our long-distance love story has taught me patience and endurance and so much more about love. I’m a long-distance runner and swimmer, so I know about holding out for that final push. I thought I also had patience nailed because, in that long run and swim, you have only one place to go, and that’s inside your own head. 

Every day, I face that. Everyday I learn new ways I adore my husband. New ways I treasure our love and his heart!

Longing and loving and wanting to touch my husband so badly. 

I want to curl up in his arms and delightfully snore. Umair has a video of me sleeping; actually, he has made two of them. One shows more of my face and body than I am allowed to share; the other, I fell asleep while we were on a video call, and he stayed with me, trying to wake me up. 

Love isn’t a deep enough expression or explanation. 

I cherish my husband, Umair

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For anyone keeping track like me that’s also 83,980,800 seconds, 1,399,680 minutes and 23,328 hours. So NVC can get off the stick and schedule our interview already I miss my husband!

Love Letters to the Man I Love, Mera Shohar, Umair

My darling, my darling 

Have you heard me whisper today 

I whispered I love you softly to the trees

They sway in the wind 

they flow with the breeze 

They reach out to you 

They whisper all the secrets 

They say exactly what you mean to me 

In my heart, you hold 

They whisper 

I love you, Umair

I loved you yesterday 

I love you today 

I will love you tomorrow even more 

My angel, my angel 

Listen to the song the trees sing to you 

Forever

Forever

Eternally

I ache to hold you and touch you every single day that we have had to spend apart

You are my everything 

You hold my heart in your hands

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Mera Shohar

Let me tell you a secret or two

I fell in love with my husband out of the blue

when I fell in love with my husband, it seemed too impossibly wonderful to be true

But it is absolutely and blissfully true 

I am so grateful and in love with my husband 

He is my hero 

You might ask why completely different cultures

I am a woman who believes in loyalty and faithfulness above all 

My husband is from a village where loyalty and faithfulness are attributes instilled in him since birth

Where family matters MOST

I love that my husband is crazy about me, and I’m crazy about him. I love that I am his Queen and his princess all at the same time.

I love that he is faithful to Allah

I love that he is faithful to me

I am faithful entirely to him it’s the only way I know to be

I love all that he is to me

I love that he made me his bride, and I get to love him for the rest of my life 

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Love Letters


I lay here longing for your arms to be wrapped tightly around me, to cuddle into your chest and drift off sweetly to sleep

I lay here wishing for our sweet apartment in the Elysium

I lay here longing for my heart to be by your side, Umair 

Each and every day

Daydreams and long rides up the mountains to see beauty and blissfully be by your side

To take our walks 

And love each other 

I lay here longing for the perfection of our apartment there, dreaming of our life where our life is less complicated but far richer in comparison for all the joy in our life surrounded by our family 

Waiting for our I130 approval has been a journey, and every single hoop 

And line 

One thing is certain: all the time, I am longing for you 

I treasure you, my angel 

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Mera Shohar Mera Farshtah Mera Dal

No matter how many times I tell you I love you, I always love you more than these words can ever express! Illustrate or even begin to articulate. 

Thank you, Umair, for showing me your love, not just because you say and show it every day but also through your actions and expressions of love. Thank you for loving me in your words and actions.

You’re my favorite place and my favorite person. You are my strength and protector. I look to your hands and our photos when I need peace. I long to curl up in your arms and nuzzle your chest every single day! 

You are my home, my center. You love me, and I love the way you love me. Happy First Anniversary, one year officially, Mr & Mrs Umair (Friday, January 10, 2025! We have loved each other and been spouses for far longer. The traditional gift for the first year is paper, so I am writing this to you as always. There are other gifts, but they will wait until we are physically together. 

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Grains of Sand, Meri Shohar


Staring off through the sands of time

Each grain of sand 

Each grain of sand specks of brilliant memories 

Each brilliantly articulates 

Each emanates what you mean to me 

There are not enough grains to describe what you mean to me 

Tam, Meri Umair 

Tam, Meri Shohar 

Tam mera sab kach ho

You are courageous and fierce

I am shy and reserved, except when it comes to you 

Then suddenly, words spring to life and dance pirouettes around our life 

You are bold and loud 

I am quiet and thoughtful 

Your skin is gloriously sunkissed 

And I burn to a crisp in the shade 

Your eyes are golden-flicked brown, and mine are blueish-green

Tam mera sab kach ho

Shukriya Allah for the blessings of meri Shohar 

I love you 

Min tam se muhabbat karta hon Umair 

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Sunlight on the Windowpane

The sunlight softly flickers on our windowpane

Hope and light fill the air 

I ache for you 

I need you 

The sunlight softly cascades of light on our windowpane

I sit here missing you 

With a larger-than-life cup of coffee to start my day

The aromas filling my nose 

The warmth gently caresses my hands

The soft, tender expression of love fills my mind. I love you 

And wishing for a “beam me over Scottie” direct route to my husband’s arms each day 

I count the seconds, minutes, and hours of each day

I’m waiting for our letter and interview and for you to get home to me 

Where I can open my eyes each day as the sunlight flickers in through our windowpane 

I wash the rays of light, dance about, and kiss and linger on your face

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