Daily writing prompt

What’s your definition of romantic?

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What is my definition of romantic?
The most adorable thing I have ever seen was the couple that has been together for over 50 years that I helped with their Medicare insurance plans.

Originally from the East Coast. They have been together for the majority of their lives. You can tell the love they have for each other is pure and deep. That they have been taking care of each other one by working, and the other a home maker. Amazing children and travel adventures under their belt.

He had to have major surgery last year and has a hard time walking, and doing things like stairs and keeping up with the house. She has a hard time with her memory these days.
But the grace they have for each other in their old age is priceless. She asks the same question over and over and over, and each time he without an ounce of trigger or anger or aggression. Just continues to answer the question each time as if it was the first time she’d asked. He knows it isn’t her nature to be that way, old age has taken his old wife and brought him this one to take of too.

Just like she will be there to hold the jacket so he can gently get his arm in the sleeve, he will be her rock protecting her from her lapses in memory. Together they will accomplish all the tasks, even if he has to guide her through how she can help him do the things physical things he cannot.

Just thinking about their interactions and the love, patience, and grace they have for each other makes me wish we weren’t so quick to anger, and that we had patience for each other. I see it all the time, someone has a health complication that changes their personality, their physical abilities or mental capacity.. and the people around them who are used to interacting with the person they used to be, but they aren’t that person anymore. They are just a new version of who they once were, my hope is that people will have more grace and compassion for others like this beautiful couple does.