I wanna wake up next to you

What do you think is the best part of a loving relationship? Is it the sharing, the intimacy, the sex, the security it gives you, the feeling of being wanted?

For me, it is all these things but above all it is waking up to someone lying next you. I say this because in my last relationship this barely happened. The relationship lasted eighteen months and during that time my girlfriend stayed just one full night in my bed; I stayed two nights in hers and we shared a hotel bed four times.

Ours wasn’t a normal relationship because although she was separated from her husband and didn’t live with him, she wanted the relationship to be a secret to all, and so we didn’t spend too much time together. In the early days we would see each other twice a week but then she wanted to drop it down to one, which I was not happy about.

What I was more unhappy about was that she would always, apart from once, go home after our love making, generally around midnight or one. She said it was because my bed was too uncomfortable but perhaps it was more to do with the fact she was a night owl. In fact I called her Night Owl because she would generally go to bed in the early hours – three, four or five in the morning, then she would sleep until early afternoon.

And so, you can see why waking up next to someone means a lot to me, not just to see their face upon awakening but sometimes to continue what we left off the night before – making love.