Aysha Hailee: And I Love Him!

Happy Valentine’s Day to my lover boy! 💌

The foundation of our relationship was built on Spotify shares. Our first texts are filled with Coldplay, The Killers, Dominic Fike, The Beatles, and Lana Del Rey. I worked late nights cataloging books at the college library, so Noah made me a “night shift” playlist (which we transferred to Spotify the second I realized he had been brainwashed into using Apple Music.)

We picked three songs that we felt were “our songs” for our wedding. We danced to You & Me by Penny and the Quarters because I really didn’t want a slow serious song since I already felt really awkward dancing in front of everyone as is. It was silly, unique, and frankly perfect in my opinion. We kissed under a shower of rose and peony petals during our send off to Il Mondo as a tribute to About Time, one of our favorite movies that we actually watched on our honeymoon!

But our song, OUR song, is See You in the Dark by Soko and Keegan DeWitt. Sometimes I wish we had it as our first dance song at our wedding, but then I remember that we slow danced to it in our kitchen the night of our honeymoon after eating leftover wedding pizza and cheesecake. It plays in the background of my honeymoon memories. It’s special to me and probably always will be.

I have listened to and loved Santo & Johnny for years. This year I discovered that my favorite Santo & Johnny song was actually originally by The Beatles and has words! So I’m dedicating it to us and our first Valentine’s Day together as a married couple.

And I Love Her by The Beatles

I give her all my love

That’s all I do

And if you saw my love

You’d love her too

I love her

She gives me everything

And tenderly

The kiss my lover brings

She brings to me

And I love her

A love like ours

Could never die

As long as I

Have you near me

Bright are the stars that shine

Dark is the sky

I know this love of mine

Will never die

And I love her

We’ve only (and already?!) been married for 9 months and the rumors are true: I love him more now than on our wedding day. And he loves me! I hope we’re always like this. That we always listen to records in our bedroom, that we grocery shop in our pajamas, that you make sure I’m not walking on the road side of the sidewalk, that we have our best conversations in the hot tub, and that I never stop beating you at Michigan Rummy.

I hope you always direct the AC to my face when I feel carsick, sing the same line for the millionth time before moving on to the next, that you take me for rides on the Vespa when I feel overwhelmed, and that you ask me to scratch your back right as I’m about to fall asleep and then fall asleep 1 second after I start.

I hope we always cook bacon in our underwear, that you kiss my forehead before you leave to your Sunday morning meetings, that we get snow cones every weekend in the summer, and plan trips that don’t make it off of the couch but then spontaneously they do.

I hope that you still try so hard not to laugh when I’m mad about something, that you take out the garbages and I do the dishes, that you grab my hand in public, and that you keep asking me if I’m ready to have kids every 5 minutes knowing full well that you would panic if I ever said yes. And then when we do have kids, I hope you still love me the way I will love you!