He exclaimed, “I’ve got her!” and I finally believed him for the first time in months.
Love isn’t always about sticking by someone through good times and bad. Having the guts to hold up a mirror and declare, “We can be better than this,” is sometimes necessary. We have to be superior than this. Not only for ourselves, but also for the little people who observe everything we do and learn what love looks like from our flaws.
And sometimes the most unexpected gifts—like a voluntarily performed nappy change at two in the morning—bring healing.
