💝 Amanda Keller Shares The Deeply Moving Valentine’s Gift From Her Husband

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast, you know,
we're just talking about Valentine's Day. And for those of
you that are new to this show, you may not
know that my husband has a neurological disorder. He's got
like a form of Parkinson's and he's had it for
a number of years now, and it's really hard that
he's always been a giant brainiac and not only does

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this stuff affect you physically, but neurologically as well. And
so I've learned that sometimes those big events like birthdays,
Valentine's Day, anniversaries, our easy banter, our easy chat, our
easy being with each other isn't as easy. He's still
highly but it's sometimes those it's the ease of the

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chat isn't always there. And so I've learned not to
get upset when they're big days and I don't get
back what I want, if you know what I mean emotionally,
I'm talking sure about here. And so on Valentine's Day
in the morning, I I wrote him a car and
I said Happy Valentine's Day, and he said Happy Valentine's Day.
And then for some reason I said, yes, it's valid.

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I just you know, I couldn't help myself. Valentine's Day
and I looked at me in the face, said you
know what I'm telling you is VALENTI And he said, yeah,
Happy Valentine's Day. But we've been married for this will
be our thirty sixth wedding anniversary. So we've been had
thirty six Valentine's Days. And it's so hard as you
can imagine to see the person you love not be
as able as they used to be. Sure, it's so hard.

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But I went for a walk with a dog and
I came home and there were some beautiful flowers on
the kitchen bench and he obviously got someone to help
him with that, and his handwriting is so scrawling now,
but it's a little card that said, please be my
Valentine's forever. And I just thought, when we're just talking
about the effort, is the effort worth? You know, it's
the effort more than than the thought. Any effort from

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him like that just means so much to me. It's
a big deal. And I showed it to our sons
to say, look, look how amazing your dad is. In
the midst of all of this, he knew that that
would matter to me, and that's why he did that.
So you know, you you do hold on to that
previous chorus that she's just a husband, and that really
that did you run home? Didn't? Yeah? Absolutely, don't sweat

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the small stuff. It is the gesture though, well but
it is. It is the gesture, but the thought behind it.
He knew that mattered to me, of course, and so
he went out of his way to do that, and
I'm very very grateful. It was lovely great, Yeah,