Tim You Are My Sunshine

You are my sunshine—not because our days have always been easy or our path smooth, but because you are the light that remains when everything else feels uncertain. Loving you has taught me that sunshine isn’t something that guarantees clear skies; it’s something that shows up faithfully, even when the clouds refuse to lift. Through the unpredictability of PNES, through moments of fear, exhaustion, and unanswered questions, you have been my constant. When the world feels unsteady and our plans change without warning, you are the place my heart returns to, the warmth that reminds me I’m not walking this road alone.

There have been seasons where joy felt fragile, where we measured days in small victories and learned to celebrate moments others might overlook. PNES has asked so much of us—patience we didn’t know we had, strength we didn’t ask for, resilience forged in moments we never imagined facing. Yet even in those seasons, love has never left the room. We have learned how to sit with uncertainty, how to breathe through fear, and how to hold each other when words fall short. In those quiet moments, when the noise of the world fades and it’s just us, I am reminded that sunshine isn’t loud or flashy—it’s steady, soft, and enduring.

You are my sunshine because you keep showing up, even on the days when your body and mind are fighting battles no one else can see. Your courage doesn’t always look like standing tall; sometimes it looks like resting, trusting, and letting yourself be held. Watching you walk this journey has deepened my love in ways I never expected. It has taught me compassion that goes beyond words and a tenderness that lives in the smallest acts—shared glances, squeezed hands, quiet reassurances that say, “We’re still here.”

We have weathered storms together that could have pulled us apart, but instead, they have woven us closer. We’ve learned how to grieve the life we thought we’d have while still choosing to love the life we are living. We’ve learned that hope doesn’t disappear just because the road changes—it simply takes a different shape. And through it all, you have remained my sunshine, not by fixing everything, but by loving me faithfully in the middle of it.

No matter how heavy the days become or how uncertain tomorrow feels, my heart knows this truth: I would choose this life with you, again and again. I would choose the hard days and the healing days, the questions and the quiet moments, because love like ours is worth it. As long as we face whatever comes hand in hand, my sunshine will never fade—and neither will my belief that even in the darkest seasons, light still lives here, right between us.