It’s ironic that, despite being married for so many years, we had only planned the wedding in this year.

As for my family...

In the fifth year of my relationship with Brian, I lost all of them.

I remember it vividly. It was the fifth day of the Christmas holidays, the day when my uncles’ families would visit us.

But I wasn’t home.

Brian’s mother had fallen ill.

To ensure Brian, who was away on a business trip, wouldn’t worry, I rushed to the hospital the night before to care for his mother.

On the fifth day, while she was sleeping, I video-called my mom.

Everyone in my family could...