A loving husband who understands the whole “for better, for worse… to love and to cherish” thing.
A husband’s beautiful list of reasons he loves his wife who is battling depression is taking the internet by storm after she posted it online.
The list, written on the couple’s mirror, was posted to Imgur by Molly Murphy, a California woman suffering depression and anxiety in the wake of recent events, has been viewed over 1.3 million times as of Saturday.
Molly told ABC News that she and her husband, Tim Murphy, had been newlywed and living in San Francisco, but that changed when Tim took a job in Los Angeles a few months ago. The two had been living apart, only seeing each other on weekends, but last Monday she decided to fly down early because she was “overwhelmed by depression and anxiety,” as well as suffering the death of a close friend.
“I just felt like I needed to take at least that day off to get myself together because I was falling apart at the seams,” she told ABC News. “So just like a movie, I showed up at the airport, asked for a seat on the next flight, got home and ran into my apartment and laid down in my bed.”
However, when she turned and faced a mirror that was next to the bed – she saw her husband’s loving note.
“I was overcome,” she said, adding “We had been going through so many trials and tribulations so early in our marriage, and just for him to find the time and love to write all those kind and loving words for me. I thought, ‘This is just like a love story in a movie. It was perfection.'”
According to Molly, Tim was disappointed she had seen the list as he was hoping to fill the entire mirror by her arrival, but she had come early instead.
The list includes items such as: “she never quits on herself or me,” and “she has experienced severe tragedy yet is the most optimistic person about humanity i know,” and “without realizing it, she makes me want to do more for her than i have ever wanted to do for anyone.”
However, as Molly writes in her Imgur post:
I’m not saying mental illness is cured by nice words on a mirror. In fact, it takes professional care, love, empathy, sometimes even medication just to cope. Many people struggle with it – mental illness – more than we probably even realize. And instead of showing them hate or anger when they act out. Show them kindness and remind them things can and WILL get better. Everyone needs a little help sometimes. If that person can’t be you – see if you have any resources for therapy.
In a more recent edit, she added:
I’m still struggling, but I’m glad I have my other half to help me make it through. It may just be a few words on my mirror, but I’ll look at them when I wake up and know I’m not alone. I’ll know I have my best friend, my co-pilot in life to help guide me through.
You can see her husband’s remarkable list and Molly’s accompanying words, below:
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