Or how expensive their gifts are.
Or how many people
admire them.
Love is measured in the moments when someone needs you.
The promises you keep.
The calls you answer.
The places you choose to be.
Dominic had spent years building an empire.
But the afternoon he forgot to pick up our daughter, he discovered that the most precious part of his life had never been a business he owned.
It had been a little girl waiting for her daddy.
And I had spent years believing that keeping my marriage together was the greatest proof of love I could offer my family.
Now I knew better.
Sometimes love meant leaving.
Sometimes it meant accepting an apology without returning.
Sometimes it meant carrying memories into a new home and learning how to breathe again.
My husband once believed I would always wait for him.
At business dinners.
At family celebrations.
At home.