LOVE FROM A PREGNANT WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE

Love is when you are cranky and your lover understands

Love is when you are spitting endlessly and your lover still willingly wants to kiss you

Love is when you know you are fat and your lover still calls you beautiful

Love is when you wake your lover up at 11pm in the night for ice cream and he willingly goes to buy it. You may later vomit the ice cream but he still willingly cleans you up

Love is when your lover does not use his perfume in the house but puts it in his bag to use outside the house because the smell nauseates you

Love is when your face is so big and swollen yet your lover still takes you out gladly and introduces you as his love

Love is when your lover has to sleep under the duvet because you are feeling hot even with the AC/fan at its maximum

Love is when you are feeling cold under the duvet and your lover has to go and sleep in another room because the room is too hot

Love is when your lover willingly eats the food you have prepared even though it is peppery or salty.

Love is when you are too tired and nauseated to even cook yet your lover understands say na the belle, no be you

Love is when you can’t seem to find sleep and yet, your lover keeps awake for your sake keeping you company

Love is when your lover tries to sleep beside you even though you snore loudly and he does not like snores

Love is when your lover allows you to sleep on the living room couch because that is the only desirable place to sleep

Love is when your lover occasionally sweeps the house because the belle no allow person bend or see front.

Love is when your lover encourages you to eat by preparing your favourite meals for you

Love is when the doctor says ‘no love making for the sake of the baby’ and your lover understands and doesn’t touch you

Love is when you cannot be fashion conscious, still yet, your lover sees the beauty in you

Love is when your old clothes don’t fit again and your lover buys a new set of maternity wears for you

Yours, ‘Lade