[Video] Moving Tribute To “Imperfect” Husband
This beautiful short video clearly demonstrates Wabi Sabi Love in a marriage….Mrs. Lee articulates the little things that make a relationship so precious and gives meaning to the importance of having a witness to our lives.
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Thank you so much! I am very touched and I will surely see my husbands imperfections in a new light from now on.
I’m glad you were touched….it’s so important to remember that it’s really the little, quirky things that make us “who” we are and that we are here to learn to love and accept each other. The good and the bad.
Love this! The site is beautiful, Arielle. xoxoxo
Deeply touching and so very true, as I can only confirm from my own experience!
When the snoring of my then partner became more and more an issue, and I complained about it, my son’s comment was: “I so wish Nelly would sleep next to me, snoring.”
He was 21 then, studying in Australia, she in Europe, and they hadn’t seen each other for more than a year.
He’s now 22, back to Europe, and their relationship of 4 years survived an almost 2 year separation due to his studies. I learned a lot about Wabi Sabi Love from this young man!
so ture: this was a very touching andmoving eulogy – and also very brave…….I am still calling in my soulmate – I am now making room for ‘imperfections’ right from the beginning.
thanks
Hi Christina,
How wise of you to call in your soulmate Imperfections and all! Brilliant thinking!!
Blessings,
Arielle
so true: this was a very touching and moving eulogy – and also very brave…….I am still calling in my soulmate – I am now making room for ‘imperfections’ right from the beginning.
thanks
At the end of the day, its the little things that matter. I used to hate the smell of his coffee brewing in the morning, now I’d give anything to smell it again. The bedrooms are tidy now, but the children aren’t here, oh to have things messy again & a home full of the children’s laughter, music and noise!!
Arielle – no fair making me cry at my desk at work — that was beautiful.
That’s why I always keep a box of tissues on my desk!
All I can say is “Wow!” You opened my eyes !! Thank you!!
Arielle,
I am in search of my soulmate… I can only pray I find an imperfect love as beautiful as Mrs. Lee experienced. She was so blessed.
These are tears of what can be…
Lynda
Absolutely fabulous, Arielle.
The video and Mrs. Lee’s comments truly speaks to the language and definition of the Wabi Sabi Love that you will be sharing with us in your new book.
I am sure that my mom, who lost my dad over 5 years ago, relates to what Mrs. Lee shared. While I am now single, I was married and not all of my marriage was “bad” so I can, too, relate to those imperfections.
I love the Wabi Sabi concept, Arielle. Thank you for sharing it with us. For those of us still looking and savoring the waiting for that soulmate, we can prepare for life with that person by studying and taking in all that we can so when we are there with that soulmate, we will be able to understand and accept each other with love and respect through all of life’s ups and downs.
A beautiful reminder. My children and I were reminiscing about a friend who’d passed. We all agreed that it was the characteristics that had been difficult to accept or live with that were the ones we missed the most…like his big booming laughter that took the roof off the house.
How precious those moments are and how fleeting. While I know this is meant for couples I also find it holds true for your relationship with your children. I was the caregiver of my daughter for nearly 21 years before she passed away last November. All the little things so many take for granted make up the day to day life we all live.
This is Beautiful… I was happily married for 33 years and lost my wonderful husband. He was my World! It will never be the same without him.
Arielle, thank for sharing… I can’t wait for your new book.
I dont know how you did this, Ariel, but I burried my “imperfect” father yesterday and your email about this beautiful woman touched me greatly. I have lost a great father with passion and a short temper, I can go on & on. My mother said she will miss his bed noises and all the other ups & downs from this very alive and always active man. My “imperfect” soulmate is still sleeping now and I am the most lucky woman in the world and wish for all women who are reaching out for theirs that they will find him, like I did, but 1 thing, dont look for perfection, ever. Love from Ibiza, Spain
Isn’t it great when we can find the beauty in our partners perceived imperfections? The world will be a much happier place when we all let go of the need for perfection.
Thank you to Mrs Lee (that is actually my mother’s name) and to Arielle for these few beautiful moments to reinforce that living a fulfilled life is indeed “in the details”, regardless of their perfection, or imperfection. I recently celebrated my 40th anniversary surrounded by my family and of course my amazing husband. I am filled with love and gratitude that we have beaten all the odds to still be together and still in love with being in love. As a travel specialist in inspired pursuits, I encourage people to live their lives with a warm hand instead of a cold one- and to do things in the now! Too many people think that “when they retire” their dreams will come true only to find that their dreams were meant for living and not for dreaming…and that illness or death had deprived them of what was in their reach all along. Dreams are also meant to be imperfect..the end result is not to continue dreaming but to have cherished memories!
This has definitely made me rethink my list of soulmate “qualities’ Thank you so much Arielle for this.
This was absolutely beautiful. Brought me to tears. I have found my soulmate and it is his perceived “imperfections” that I admire the most. Characteristics that used to irritate me in others now bring a smile to my face when I see them in him. I love this website, keep up the fantastic work! I look forward to the book.
It’s as if the universe heard my cry for clarity and your video shows up in my inbox.
Love is oozing out of this video and it’s infectious.
Thank you for sharing this and putting much of my doubts about my partner’s imperfections to rest. Not only that, but I can be appreciative of them.
Made me laugh and cry; my beloved husband died on 11.9.1994…after the funeral I brought my brother who came from Vienna to the airport, when he bought a bottle of apple juice I said, oh Michael loved this…my brother said, you will always remember the small unimportant things about him,that’s how it is. We made it a habit with my 3 children (then 18,15 and 10), to remind dad a lot, they laugh a lot remembering his short-comes, because its much easier than talking about what a wonderful human being he was or what a genius in his work (he was a Dr.of Physics and a his peers said a genius in Computer science) ;so we laugh a lot remembering what he used to say or look like or what he loved to cook or eat or drink…that’s at the end what is important in love , everyday life; thank you so much.
thank you.
Thanks Arielle! You have helped change my life and I am so very grateful. Thank you.
Very powerful……who ever would have thought ………
How beautiful is love…compassionate, forgiving and unique to each couple. Thank you for reminding us that we too can be loved…in our imperfections. just beautiful! x
Thank you for posting. Beautiful.
Thank you, I am deeply toched. much love and blessings.
How very touching. Mrs. Lee was very fortunate to have found such love and very astute to appreciate it so. I think Mr Lee was also a very fortunate man.
Arielle,
Imperfection is juicy. It’s infinite which allows for unending exploring of passion and deep heartfelt relationship. Such a needed take on soulmate love…. ah one day!
Kudos on taking this topic to the next level.
@judymartin8
A great reminder, Arielle how one’s imperfections are the stepping stones to a lifelong imprint that we can accept or adore about another human being.
Touched by this short video.
Blessings,
Deborah Skye
Said so beautifully, so touching! Blessings and condolences to you and your family.
That was beautiful… and it made me cry. I lost my wonderful husband to cancer in February of 2010 and I can’t tell you what I wouln’t give to hear him snoring next to me every night. We all have imperfections… in my eyes he was always perfect.
My sweet Wabi Sabi Love passed in 2006 after 30 years together. His shoes in front of the door that I would trip over, meant he was home. I left them there for 6 months, just to remember one of the many things…imperfections…I loved about him. And he loved all of mine. I was a blessed woman, too~~~ <3~~~
Such an excellent video!
OH ! MY GOODNESS…I AM STILL CRYING…HOW BEAUTIFUL WAS THIS WIFES’ LOVING EXPRESSION OF HER HUSBAND…WE KNOW THESE THINGS TO BE TRUE,HOWEVER, AS HUMANS WE OFTEN SEE AND HEAR WHAT MIGHT BE IMPERFECTIONS WE WOULD GLADLY WELCOME THEM BACK BECAUSE OUR LOVED ONE WOULD BE WITH US TO LOVE AND SHARE OUR TIME….PLEASE DON’T LET A DAY GO BY WITHOUT GIVING HUGS TO THOSE YOU LOVE….HUG YOUR DOCTOR,YOUR HAIRDRESSER.AND ALWAYS YOUR FRIENDS….HUGS WILL NEVER BE REFUSED…EVEN IF YOUR DOCTOR MIGHT SEEMED SURPRISED.(MINE NOW WAITS FOR MY HUG AS I LEAVE HIS OFFICE.
HUGS DON;T COST ANY THING BUT THE SINCERITY OF THE PERSON GIVING THEM… HUGS FROM PATRICIA
SOMETIMES WHEN I GIVE A HUG
I DON’T KNOW WHO IT’S FOR
WAS IT FOR THE ONE I GAVE IT TO ?
OR DID I WANT/NEED IT MORE ?
Thank you so much!!! I´m so touched and by seeing it my heart jumped suddenly with full of love to all of the imperfections in my relationship and in myself!!!
I busted out crying! She said exactly what I hope to be able to say one day and what I hope someone will say about me. The imperfections are fabulous and so are the differences.
Wow! That was beautiful and just made a ton of water spontaneously pour from my eyes!