“Rain, bad coffee, and a love worth exaggerating
Sofia, when people ask how we met, we always tell it differently, and I've decided I love that about us. You remember the rain, I remember the terrible coffee, and we both remember laughing so hard we forgot to be nervous. That's basically who we've been ever since: two people turning an ordinary day into a better story than it had any right to be.
So here is what I'm promising you, in plain words, because you deserve plain words and not a performance. I promise to stay curious about you, to never assume I already know everything about the person you're still becoming. I promise to fight fair, to say sorry first when I can, and to never let a bad night turn into a bad week. I promise to make room for your dreams even when they're inconvenient for mine, and to be the loudest person in every room cheering you on.
I promise the small things too, because I've learned those are the real ones. I'll bring you the good pillow. I'll pretend your jokes are funny, which, to be fair, they usually are. I'll be steady when you can't be, and I'll let you be steady for me, because I'm finally learning how to let someone. Whatever these years bring, the easy and the hard and the completely unexpected, I want to meet all of it next to you. You are my home and my favorite adventure, and I choose you today, tomorrow, and every ordinary, extraordinary day after that.