List of Marian Apparitions of Our Lady My relationship with Mary is a very personal one. She is my first love. I can talk to Mary. I can count on her. I have been in love with her for as long as I can remember. It's been an on again, off again romance with us, not on her part, but on mine. She's constant. She has always "been". When I've broken away from her, wrapped myself up in the glamour of the world, she stood by. When I thought I had outgrown her, didn't need her anymore, she waited. I always came back. She was always there.