It means honoring your mother’s memory instead of trying to erase it.

And it means cherishing the family you and I built together, long before they ever came along.

Anyone who cannot do all three of those things is not someone I will ever marry, no matter how much I might otherwise care for them.

That is a promise.” She thought about it.

“Would you cancel another wedding for me,” she asked, “if you had to?” “I am going to pay much closer attention from now on,” I said honestly, “so that neither of us is ever standing in that situation again.

But yes.