We are taught that love is a feeling, something that happens to us. Susan Michalet has spent a lifetime learning something different: love is a decision, made and remade, often at real cost.
These are true stories: a father who came back into her life after leaving, a marriage that began without romance and became devastating to lose, and a woman the world had written off who was welcomed into a family and loved there for twenty-one years. Out of them, Susan builds her “importance pyramid,” a way of understanding what real sacrifice looks like when it is actually yours to give, and never a transaction.
Faith runs through every chapter, not as an answer that arrives the way we ask for it, but as the people, moments, and circumstances that show up instead. The book closes on a simple, steadying claim: in relationships where people choose to love one another, you are held on the pyramids of the people who love you.