(A weekend or two ago)

I can’t remember why it came up. But the end was something like this:

“It’s lucky that you have a boyfriend who loves your dogs so much.”

“Yes, this is true, but I would like to be loved too.” Now that I write it down, it sounds so whiney. But it wasn’t like that. It was almost a throw-away line. A kind of joke.

It is true, of course. I do feel like that but I know that he does love me. Sometimes though, I’d quite like to be told.

“If I didn’t love you”, he replies, “you wouldn’t be here.”

And I know that to be true also.