my husband

is not the same man I married a year ago.  not even close.

But neither am I.  We've changed, life has changed us, experience has changed us, we've changed for the better, at least I hope we have.

Kyle was the type of person who didn't speak up, who never let people in on how he was feeling, who was confident to a point, but didn't fight for what he wanted.  He avoided confrontation, and often went ahead with what others wanted instead of what he wanted.  All of that changed when he met me.

I don't know if it was me, or it was what happened shortly after he met me.  He fell in love, he became a father, and then became a husband.  I won't lie and say that I knew everything about Kyle when we had Sophie, and I can say now, I still don't know, but he changed.

He's not the soft spoken man who could be pushed over so easily, but instead a man who says what he truly feels.  He has become more assertive with his words while listening to others, but still being a man of few words.  He's realized that his actions speak louder than his words, but knows there are times that it's nice to hear the words "I love you."

He went from being a man with no responsibility to several, he stepped up to the plate instead of falling off.  He became a father and a husband in the span of a year and it was never expected of him, he just knew.  When I look back on who he was and who he is today, the core of the man he was is still there, just parts of him have changed to accommodate his new lifestyle: a father (and a husband).

I still love my husband just as much as day 1, probably even more now, and to me he's still the man I married, but he's not the same man, he's a better man (that's not to say he wasn't a good man prior).  He's my husband.