Someone to simply ask, out loud, and then to stay for the answer.

Chapter 30 — Through the Front Door

I’ve changed as a husband, and I learned it the hard way.

A marriage isn’t a still photograph of two people who never struggle.

It’s the daily, unglamorous work of struggling together — of looking at the person you love, seeing their hands rubbed raw from stains no one else can see, and asking how can I help you carry this, instead of leaping to the worst thing you can imagine.

We came through the shadows in the driveway.