I finally have a partner

Today I realized that I mean something to my horse. I had the worst day I'm still not feeling good things at home got ugly everything about today sucked. Not my horse though. When I got to the barn everyone was leaving and I was thinking about just grazing Chicle. What the hell lets go to the indoor and play with some liberty. I didn't do any prep online just let him free. Played with circle that was ok still going out to far but he slowly comes closer. I've been playing with driving in zone 2 and getting him to catch up to me when he drifts behind. He now trots with me and canters but we didn't do a lot of cantering because I can't run without coughing my head off. I was thinking that this is going so good lets try adding a few things to see what happens. Wow! we did figure 8 at the trot it was awesome! I've had such trouble with this one even online I still have issues with it but we did it both ways. I was so happy even Chiclet was like did I do it good. He was even offering to jump over barrels that never happens. I felt like he was a real partner today. All my stress went away I love my horse.