Summer — I want to say something to you here, openly and without agenda.
Not to revisit old pain or relitigate the past, but because I believe
some things deserve to be said clearly, in a place where our children
might one day read them too.
I am sorry.
In the beginning — in those early, unsteady seasons — there were things
that happened between us that I did not have the tools, the awareness,
or the emotional foundation to handle well. Some of those things
were genuinely beyond my control at the time.
I was carrying wounds I had not yet named, patterns I had not yet seen,
and I brought all of that into spaces where you deserved steadiness.
That was not fair to you.
I do not say this to excuse anything or to reopen closed chapters.
I say it because you are the mother of McKenzie and Phoenix —
two extraordinary human beings — and you deserve to hear from me
that I recognize the weight you carried, including weight
that I added without fully understanding what I was doing.
You showed up for them when things were hard.
Whatever path brought us here, that matters —
and I want you to know that I see it.
I carry no anger toward you. I carry no blame.
I carry only the hope that whatever healing each of us needs
continues to unfold — for our sake, and most of all
for McKenzie and Phoenix, who deserve to grow up
knowing that their parents made peace with the past.
Thank you for being their mother. I mean that sincerely.