Richard Armitage spousal program
This is for all of the partners. For all of you.
This is for the partners who have no idea about our secret obsessions.
This is for the ones who know something is going on, but not what.
For the ones who see us smiling, goofily.
This is for the ones who know, and are curious. For the ones who know, and are jealous. For the ones who know, and are angry.
This is for the ones who know, and are amused. For the ones who know, and love us anyway. For the ones who know, and love us because.
This is for the partners who listen to us bubble over with glee. For those who listen with delight, with patience, with impatience. For those who listen, period.
This is for the ones who watch Richard Armitage on screen with us. Once, or many times. And for the ones who don’t. For the ones who see when we’re sad and cue up North & South or Vicar of Dibley on the DVD player. For the ones who cuddle up with us then, and for those who leave us in peace.
This is for the ones who think Armitage is a great actor. And also for the ones who don’t.
This is for the ones who smile at the time we spend at the computer and those who wish we would get off it and make dinner already. This is for the ones who teach us how to blog and photoshop and leach torrents and take better pictures and correct the html and backup our work. For the ones who rebuild our harddrives and help us buy new ones. For the ones who tease us gently, for the ones who tease us mercilessly, about the Richard Armitage wallpaper on our laptops.
This is for the ones who buy us Richard Armitage key chains and mugs and bags off ebay, who write to his fan mail address to ask for his autograph for us as a birthday present, who tell us what to say if we meet him to get his attention. For the ones who accompany us on uncertain errands, who know what it will mean to us, who push us when we’re shy. For the ones who take the pictures. For the ones who stand with us in the pictures.
Especially, this is for the partners who hold us when we can’t be in the pictures. For the partners who hold us all the other times. For the ones who have held us all this time, and who keep on holding us.
This, too, is for the partners we are still waiting to find, the ones who will love us however they can.
Thank you — all of you.
Wonderful declaration for the ones ! Thank you Servetus.
As you know, I am very, very thankful for my serious, serious treasure. Lovely post.
Thanks for that. My husband is patient with my obsession – most of the time. He’s never watched N&S all the way through, but he’ll want to see The Hobbit!
This made me tear up. I wish it could be set to music! Thanks!
Lovely, really touching. Thank you for sharing with us. I particularly like when you say “the ones who will love us however they can”
:sigh: One day
*sob*
Thank you, Servetus, for thinking about all those who support us, in our life and in our RA-fandom, which is a big part of our life ;o) Thank you !!!
i sent to hubs to read …
I am trying to stop the tears from overflowing. A cue to thank the people who live this fangurling thingy with me and continue to love me anyway.
Awwwwww *sniff sniff* That’s the sweetest thing!!!
*tears*
That’s so perfect, serv. ‘Cause hubby is that and more. *sniffle*
What phylly said … music. I hear music behind it.
*sniffle*
Beautiful!
P.S. And my hubby knows a good thing when he sees it (My RA admiration.)–happy wife, happy life. Ha!
You have in one Gratiana, Happy wife Happy life! I have become very skilled at tweeting, emailing and Facebooking while still managing to peel and chop veg for dinner!
Heaven knows how he will cope when I go to NZ for 3 weeks!! ♥
Have a great w/end all ☺
Aagh! I want one of these!
Itsjsforme – family/husband and children, who make rather good meet-the-actor experience. Lovely spouse and kids. And possibly nice from the actor experience, too.
Yesterday, the critical mass of “wonderful partner” really became apparent to me in so many ways — through reports of different kinds of meetings and non-meetings with Armitage and through reflection while driving. It seemed like it was time to thank them all — romantic, and non-romantic, and the ones we’re getting ready to meet. Thanks for all the positive comments.
Servetus, again you clothe your thoughts in words so perfectly. On one side they give me a cheering, tender feeling about the richness of possibilities in relationships and on the other hand they’re making my a bit sad and melancholy as I realise what all is missing or gone missing. On these grounds I’m more prone to „the ones we’re getting ready to meet“ as you put it…
Assuming you had a smooth trip and arrived home all save and sound, which is wonderful, I wish you a good start and a pleasant, cosy snuggling into having (a little bit?) more time for yourself or for doing things they please you most (at least every now and then!! LOL)
It’s so good having you around!!!
I’m getting ready myself, linda60. However that happens
Thanks for the kind words.
This is beautiful servetus.
I tend to keep my inner fangurl under control around Mr bollyknickers just because i know that i’d quickly get fed up if he talked about and watched Monica Belucci all the time. But hopefully he can regard my crush as a compliment – and a sign of my excellent taste in men. For the qualities i perceive RA as having are qualities Mr bolly has in abundance – the work ethic, ambition and intelligence coupled with humour, generosity and modesty. Not to mention a cute butt and a good head of hair. I think he does know this but i’m sending him this link just in case.
I’ve heard every variation on partner attitudes from people in the fandom from “I don’t dare mention it” to “he offered to dress like Guy of Gisborne to cheer me up” and even the people who can’t mention it are loved by their partners — so I wanted to love those folks, too
Thanks for sending out the recognition and the love.
Thanks for this serv, it’s lovely. My hubby has moved from “absolutely no idea” to the “vague idea she’s a fan of this bloke” category. Baby steps.
educational theorists call this teaching to the proximal level of development
I sent this to hubby, because he is always so wonderful about things that interest me, and you wrote things I couldn’t figure out how to express, serv. After he went upstairs to read his email this evening, he called down to me, “Did you read your email yet?” This is what he sent back to me:
Thank you for thinking I am all that, I do not think of me that way. I support you in all that you do because I love you. I think it is very cool that you find those things that interest you, and I think you are pretty cool yourself.
Yeah *sniff* … excuse me. I need to go hug that man.
Thanks, serv.
aaaw. hug him from me, too. More chastely, however.
I did. He doesn’t know it, but I did.
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