To Jac,

My infinite love, for more than a decade I’ve known you would be my forever lover. Though you always danced to a different beat, I’m so lucky to have found the key to your heart, the combination of swimming, a puppy and some burritos, and eventually, cycling over the French Alps. Once we synchronised, I knew we would be attuned to each other for life, as partners in adventure. 

You have an incredible musical ear and a talent for acapella. You know when the note rings true. You are always in tune. But this attentiveness extends beyond the musical. You are in tune with yourself, with family, friends and even strangers.  With animals, with nature – the ocean, the mountains, to your bicycle and even outer space. 

Most astonishing of all, you are so attuned, to me. You anticipate and intuit my thoughts, feelings and needs, often before I do myself. 

So my promise to you, my love, is to tune into you, from the moment I wake, til I fall asleep, every day, forever.

I promise to tune into your heart and mind, as you are attuned to mine. To tune into your dreams and desires, your challenges and triumphs, your high notes and low notes, your joys and melancholies.  

I promise to stay attuned to myself, as you are to yourself. To be patient and compassionate, to grow, and critique, and expand. To live in harmony with you, to notice when we are off-key, and to synchronise with you. To recalibrate if we hit a sharp, sour or flat note. To stay in rhythm, to dance on beat, to compose a symphony which continues indefinitely. 

Even when the cacophony of the world around us is deafening, I vow to stop the world, stand still, and tune in, to you.