My favorite moments with you are when we say nothing at all. The moments when your toes touch mine underneath the purple covers as we read our books on different subjects taking us to different worlds. No noise in the background. Just the sound of turning pages and slow, relaxed breathing.

I love the moments we share enclosed within those four automobile doors, saying nothing at all. Listening to the notes that escape out of your overpriced speakers. No noise needed. The sound of the engine going. The sound of the road beneath us. The sound of love dancing between our hearts.

I especially love the moments when it hits me. The bad days. The crippling days. The dark days that come without warning. That is when I love you the most. When you stare into my face, read the sadness in my eyes, and plant kisses along the same path where the tears fell. Those are the moments when I need you most. When you grab me and fall to the floor, holding me the entire way down. You don’t understand how much that means to me. How you help me out of hell with your silence. How you make me feel so loved. So safe. So secure. And you say nothing at all.

It’s not when you ask how my day was when you see the stress resting on my brow. It’s not when you surprise me with trinkets or flowers at work, making all the girls envious. It’s not when we dine at my favorite restaurant or even when you solve the riddle of my orgasm while we make love.

I love you the most in the moments when you say nothing at all. In those moments when your lips do no talking and you let your hands do the explaining. In those moments when the quietness of the room is filled with all the things you want to say. All the things I need to hear.

My God. How I love you. How I love the deafening silence. How I love your ability to decipher when to speak and when to bow. When to bark and when to kneel. When to roar and when to lay. You just know. This is the reason why, of everyone, you are the chosen. Because you understand that I understand you best, I hear you loudest, when you say nothing at all.