That Saturday, I hadboarded a plane hoping to give my husband the best surprise of his life.
Instead, his announcement gave me the truth I had been avoiding.
And as painful as that truth was, it gave me something more valuable than the marriage I thought I had.
It gave me the courage to stop begging someone else to choose me.
Because the most important person on that plane wasn’t Vanessa.
It wasn’t Tyler.
It was the little boy in the back row who had drawn a picture for his father and stillfound the courage to ask if he wanted it.
And from that day forward, I promised myself I would never let Mason believe that someone else’s selfish choices could determine how much he was worth.
He was loved.
He was enough.
And so was I.
