Letter 1


Letter 1: Choosing Us Every Day

Dear Partner,

Before we are parents, before we are anything else, we are two people who chose each other. It’s easy to forget that in the middle of the noise—the homework battles, the grocery lists, the late-night wake-ups. But at the heart of everything we are building stands us.

I want us to remember that choosing each other isn’t something we did once at the altar, or on the day we moved in together. It’s a daily decision. A quiet commitment whispered between the moments when no one else is looking.

Because when we choose each other first—not in a selfish way, but in a rooted way—we give our children the greatest gift we could ever offer: a foundation built on love, not just duty.

They watch us, more than we know.
They feel the undercurrent of respect or resentment.
They learn from the way we speak to each other when we’re tired, from the way we laugh after a hard day, from the way we apologize when we’re wrong.

Choosing each other doesn’t mean we never disagree. It doesn’t mean we pretend everything is perfect. It means that even when we’re frustrated, even when life pulls us in a thousand directions, we find our way back. It means that when decisions have to be made—about family, about priorities, about raising these beautiful little humans—we make them as a team.

Today, I want to recommit to that.
To not let the stress of parenting make us forget that we are the home our children live in.
To defend our bond even when it would be easier to blame or withdraw.
To remind each other that our love story didn’t end when the kids came—it just got richer, deeper, more meaningful.

Because long after the toys are packed away and the school days are over, it will still be us, standing side by side.

And every day, I want to choose you again.

With all my heart,
Your Partner 


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