Soft Eyes...

Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia

Youngest son Thomas got married in North Georgia a couple of weeks ago and that was a good thing; his wife's name is Julia.

It was a good thing, because for the last few years his father (a very, very nice and reasonable person) had come under constant attack and increasing pressure from Thomas' three sisters and mother.  

The complaints from sisters and mother alike had a common theme:  "You need to talk to your son about Julia! He's going to keep fooling around, mess up, and let her get away! You've got to do something!" Guess you can figure out what a remarkable person Julia is when "from the get-go" she has three future sisters-in-law and a future mother-in-law, firmly in her corner, agitating on her behalf - just unbelievable, right!?!

My response was always:  "Don't worry; it's going to work out." Which invariably evoked a highly skeptical, hands-on-hip rebuke: "Oh yeah, well how do you know?" To which my reply was simply: "I just know."

Most women when they hear that kind of answer from a man are pretty sure he doesn't know what he is talking about.  Most of the time they are right. But not in this case; so, let me tell you how I knew.

If you've been around in life awhile, you can always tell when a man is in love with a woman.  It's really easy if you just pay attention. It's not how he acts; it's never what he says - he can fool you on those two! The tell-tale sign, the dead-giveaway is always in how he looks at her - those eyes don't lie!

He had it really, really bad... !!

A man who really loves a woman will always have "soft eyes" for her. Yep, you can always tell by those soft eyes! And, the first time I ever saw Thomas around Julia, he had the softest eyes for her I had ever seen.  

In fact it was the "worst case" of soft eyes I'd ever seen...

Thomas had it so bad he looked like Bambi!

And, if you'll take a look...

... he still does.

(... and that's a good thing, don't you think!)