The letter that saved our marriage

Three years ago, right after we moved here, my husband and I weren't getting along too great. We were always arguing, bickering, and nit-picking. Basically we each did our best to be a pain in the butt.

After a while, it seemed like we weren't going to get past our differences, so we talked about splitting up. I can't even describe the pain I felt. It broke my heart to think about losing the man I believed was my soul mate, my one true love.

Apparently he felt the same way because he did something he'd never done before. He wrote me a love letter.

It wasn't written on fancy paper. It wasn't filled with lovely verses. It wasn't folded nicely inside an envelope. It wasn't anything like you would expect a love letter to be. But it was written from his heart. He put so much thought into every word, and all because he didn't want to lose his soul mate either.

Now here it is, 3 years later and I still have that love letter. I carry it with me wherever I go. Sometimes I'll take it out, carefully unfold it and reread every word. I've read it so often that it's getting brittle. So I decided to immortalize it here. Now even if the ink fades and the paper tears, I'll always have a way to remember the sweetest love letter I ever received.