She shakes her head softly, her lips trembling, and my voice dips lower.
“I promise to stay awake with you when sleep won’t come, to listen even when you tell the same story twice, and to sit beside you through every moment…never rushing you, never making you feel like you’re too much. Because you aren’t. You’re everything.”
I lift my eyes to hers.
“I will stand with you in joy and in doubt. I will protect your heart, celebrate your victories, and hold you through every phase of life. You are my safest place, my greatest love, and the home I didn’t know I was searching for. I choose you today, and I will choose you every day that follows, until we are dust. And if there is an afterlife, I will ask God to bring us together again. I am yours completely, endlessly, and without question.”
