May 30, 2022

My dearest,

Most couples stop talking to each other after a decade or less. I just made that statistic up but we all know it sounds about right, right?

Yet here we are after almost a decade and half and we’re still talking to each other, even when we are just spending time together in companionable silence. There is more than one way to communicate.

And when we do talk, chatting over FaceTime when we are in different countries and time zones, or telling each other terrible dad jokes over coffee in a café, it’s about the most ordinary things.

Yet even ordinary things can lead to extraordinary changes.

Sometimes you point errors in my judgement, or when I am being needlessly careless with or flippant to others, or when I could be more thoughtful and do more for my family, or that I ought to be more grateful for what I have (a job, a salary, my now smaller waistline) or what we have (our home, our health, our wonderful natures, ahem).

You tell me the most ordinary and most important stuff in the world. You make me want to be a better man. And when I am with you, when we tell each other dad jokes (the most terrible ones), I know I am becoming just that man.

Thank you, my love, so very much.

Yours, ever and always.