[music playing]
- Hey. - Hey.
What's going on?
Where's Lulu at?
She's right here hanging out.
- Guess who's come to babysit? - Yeah.
You ready to go?
Yes, I'm ready to go.
I'm a little nervous leaving the baby without one of us.
I know.
My anxiety is, like, sky high right now.
I know your mom is going to do good,
but this is the first time that we're both leaving her alone.
[sighs]
Y'all better enjoy this night.
I'm going to miss you.
We'll be right back.
We'll see about that.
When y'all don't get them breaks, y'all going
to be looking for them breaks.
- I know. - Uh-huh.
See you guys later. - Later.
Bye, Mom.
We've been so focused on the baby
and making sure the baby got here
safe that I think me and her got lost in the shuffle.
So we're on our first date as brand new parents.
Want to cheers to something?
Yeah.
To what?
To our first drink as parents.
Dr. Jessica mentioned that we should have a date night.
And as I'm sitting here now, I'm realizing even more so
that it's really important for us
to get out and just enjoy each other's company.
It's nice to be here.
You look nice.
Thank you.
I got cute for you.
I tried to work with what I got.
All right.
[laughs]
Last night, I was up till, like, 2:00 in the morning.
Hey, the work you do is important.
I know.
You're doing a good job.
Thank you.
It's been hard, like hard.
And there's days I'm like, I don't even
feel like doing this.
And there's days I'm like, oh, my god.
I love you so much.
You're everything that I asked for.
It's one of those things that I've
got to grow to love you more, grow to want to stick it out,
grow to want to be there.
But then some days, I'm like, [sighs]..
I do want to fight for this marriage
first before I just give up and throw in the towel.
I'm just glad that Shaunice does too.
Today, I read something.
I know we always talked about looking up arranged marriages.
I read something on arranged marriages.
What did you read?
I read that arranged marriages,
they say that that first couple years it's though
as they get to know each other. - Stop.
You're going to make me cry.
You want a hug?
I'm listening.
So the first five years is really tough,
and then the back end is easier because of the growth
and the experiences that they go through together.
So did you take anything from out
of that when it comes to us?
Well, yeah.
I was thinking we're still really young,
and we're a year in.
And I'm just like, some more shared experiences
and some more growth together would help the marriage out.
If you can really push through the super hard times
when it gets really tough, then maybe you can really last.
This first part is the toughest.
And if we can make it through the first part, then
maybe we can make it through forever.
So I have something for you.
What?
Are you on your good knee or your bad knee?
What are you doing?
Baby Laura came about a month early,
but I didn't have my anniversary gift for Shaunice yet.
So I decided to surprise Shaunice with our anniversary
gift tonight.
You wrapped a gift? What?
Since when?
Oh!
We got the birthstones in it.
So yours is first, baby's second, and mine is at the end.
I love it.
Can you put it on me?
Yeah, sure.
I love my gift.
The fact that he went out and looked for something
is really, really nice.
And the fact that he had the birth stones and stuff in it,
that blew me out the water, and I loved it.
[music playing]
I only gave him a kiss, and it made me feel good.
It was nice to kiss my husband that I
haven't kissed in five months.
And then it just makes you realize this is things we're
supposed to go through so we can actually grow in love, which
the experts have been saying that from the very moment
that we started.
This is somebody I do love and somebody
I want to make it work with.