Love has motivated me..., To do whatever I need to do to make it work. My husband and I are 'newlyweds' so to speak - we just got married in Feb. 2011. We both have been thru the ringer in past relationships, and we both carry that baggage with us - no matter how hard we try to say that we haven't. In fact, I was so heartbroken & angry I was determined I would NEVER get married - but he changed that. The problem with 'love' is that people expect perfection - and when they don't get it, they seek it elsewhere, and continue to wander aimlessly breaking hearts and leaving a mess behind them. LOVE is not perfect. Love is being willing to compromise, trust, work with, be patient..., and when you've been thru a heart break it's hard to remember that there are others out there that are willing to LOVE like you. I have always had my boundaries up in our relationship, he has always fought to break them down, or prevent me from building them up again. And after we got married I made a promise to him and myself that I would LOVE him like he has loved me, and that no matter what we would fight for our love and make it work.

I am offering girl friend small overnight trip.  If this relationship can succeed we need a lot of time together to talk and hopefully more.

After 22 years of war, and peace, bliss, and heart ache, laughter, and tears, One thing it has taught both of us, is Prayers Work!, So we're both motivated, and determined to continue Our prayers, not only for each other, our friends & our loved ones, But especially the Strangers on the street, who need an encouraging word, a pat on the back, a warm meal, and a safe place to rest their heads at night across this land. They need more than prayers, they need a helping hand, UP. That's our main motivation for the coming year, We've been Blessed beyond our hopes, very simply because we're still together, and we've grown in to the best of friends. A miracle in this day, and time.

My love resolution for 2012 is to finish my book about my son.  My son is Autistic and has a heart wrenching and heartwarming story to be told.  It is out of love that I am writing this memoir and my goal is to have the book ready for professional proofreading by April 2012 and ready for printing and on the market by September 2012.

My fiancée and I met when I was very ill. She was working at the doctor’s office where I had to go every week for treatment. She was always there to greet me with a smile. I never wanted to go to the doctors, but I began to look forward to going there because of her. Her kindness, love, and humor got me through a very tough time in my life. Two years later on Valentine’s Day I asked her to marry me. We are getting married on October 6, 2012.  She is my soul mate. It is because of her that I truly believe everything happens for a reason. Without her, I don’t know where I would be today. Love will motivate me to give my heart to the woman who has given me hers and more!

This is a long story, it started in the summer of 2010. I was very over weight worked long hours had no social life at all. Then in July of 2010 the company I had worked at for 20 years went bankrupt suddenly I was out of work and did not know what to do.  That fall I decided it was time to lose the weight.  I felt awful 235 pounds! So I started a workout regiment all winter while I looked for work. When spring arrived a friend told me about a park that had a walking trail. So I decided to start walking there every morning looking for work the rest of the day. As the summer wore on I was losing the weight. 

By August I was down to 165 then one morning while walking I got caught in a freak thunderstorm. Up ahead I saw over hang I walked up there soaking wet. There was a woman standing there drenched. I had seen her before. I stopped. We nervously talked. Both of us looked silly all wet! After the rain stopped we continued on our way.  The rest of the day I could not stop thinking about her. The next day we saw each other on the trail; said hello and went our separate ways. A few days later I finally got enough nerve to ask to walk with her. That was the beginning of our love story. From there it was like a whirlwind. I love her very much. We spent the autumn together walking talking getting to know each other.

In November I asked her to marry me. She said yes! I finally got a job in December. We still walk at the park even if it's 10 degrees outside. That park holds a lot of special memories. So after 47 years, I have just started to live my life and I'm loving every minute of it. So my goal is to try and help other people with their weight loss. Help them to regain control and be a example of what the rewards are for being diligent and wanting to see something through. This jewelry collection I would love to give to my sweetheart. She has very little. We are both pretty modest. But to be able to give to her such a beautiful gift would mean everything to me!

Love motivates me every day.  the love for my husband, my children and my friends.  For 2012, the love of animals will motivate me to continue my work with my non-profit wildlife sanctuary.  We rescue and rehabilitate native wild animals and return them to the wild where they belong.  This love will motivate me to expand my work and further educate the public about the need to respect and care for our wildlife so they will be around for our children, grandchildren and so on.  www.TheDriftInn.org - Kim, Texas

This year, love will motivate me to cook more often with my husband--it brings us closer together!

Love for my oldest daughter will motivate me to work harder to find ways to come up with the money to send her to college and fulfill her dreams in life!!

My love resolution for this year is to release all unhealthy and negative relationships in my life and replace them with healthy and positive relationships. I struggled with my self esteem, depression, and low self worth all my life due to a dysfunctional home life and a hearing disability I was constantly teased about. I used to drink my pain away with alcohol which I started at a very young age of only twelve years old. I was just repeating what I saw in my home which was my parents drinking alcohol in extreme excessive amounts and they had a very toxic, angry, and unhealthy relationship with a lot of abuse involved. I myself repeated this relationship pattern in my own personal relationships with men. I had a daughter and son within the last three years and my love for them and their love for me is the only healthy love I know so my children are my priorities.  I am reliving my childhood through them by ensuring they have a healthy, fun, and interactive childhood. I ended up leaving my unhealthy and tumultuous relationship with their father after seven years for my children because I wanted them to know that a healthy relationship is possible.  My love resolution is to believe that I can have healthy loving relationships in my life that it is not always abusive, angry, and negative. My love resolution is to believe I am worthy of the best and deserve the best.

To lose weight and take better control of my health.