Steven Curtis Chapman

I send the long text messages and I get back smiley faces.

Yeah, that's the other thing.

For sure.

I mean, that is all of the things that we...

We knew, I mean, we were told immediately, Mary Beth tells this.

Our pastor friend, counselor.

Said, you know, most 90% of marriages, or I'm sure it's a, you know, you can read different numbers, but it's way up there of marriages don't survive the loss of a child.

And what's crazy is at the moment, you know, I remember both of us thinking, I know for sure I was thinking it like,

You know, I know that's true.

I hear that.

But we've already been through so much.

We've walked through so much.

This is obviously dwarfs everything else.

But it's not like we've been just skipping along through life.

Even before that, we knew every counselor in Nashville and built wings on their homes with what we had invested in trying to keep this ship afloat and keep us moving together, loving each other, never a question.

I love this woman.

I just, you know.

how are we going to survive each other?

How are we going to survive this, all this that's, you know, getting poured on top of us.

But so I think in, in immediately, it was like, I understand.