Back in the Saddle

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I wanted love at first kiss to last a lifetime. It didn't.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My wife and I separated after twenty-two years.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd moved from Ireland to Australia to be with Taylor never doubting that we'd grow old together. Instead we grew apart. Her focus was our horse breeding farm mine was our family. In the end the scarcity of water on our farm mirrored the devotion in our marriage. It had been a long drought.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our scheming children have other ideas. They've invited my mother to come stay knowing I haven't told her about the split. It's easier for us all if she doesn't know. Now I'm living back in the family home sleeping next to the woman I'll never stop loving.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Proximity won't fix our problems. Only we can do that. I don't think she wants to...except the way she looks at me suggests otherwise. It sparks hope I lost long ago.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's time for us to fight for each other.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Farmers know all about risk but putting my heart back on the line is terrifying. If I want forever it's a risk I'm going to have to take.</span></p><p></p>