Fourteen years in and that is still the whole point.
She spent five years rebuilding herself from the ground up — single mother, crisis counselor, the kind of woman who handles everything because she had to. He was the steady one. Funny. Intentional. The man who opens the car door every single time, not because someone told him to, but because that is just who he is. She had almost stopped believing that man existed.
"He wants more for her than from her."
— The sentence that explains everythingThrough her own research and her police report, Dee learned the truth of how she came to America. She was abandoned in a taxi cab in Turkey, brought to an orphanage, returned to her birth family, and then abandoned in a taxi cab a second time and placed in the orphanage again. An American family adopted her at six and brought her home. That origin — the abandonment, the finding, the choosing — quietly shaped everything she would one day teach about love.
The family who chose her changed the entire arc of her life. She never forgot it.She raised her family, earned her Master's in Counseling, worked crisis hotlines and emergency rooms — the places people go when everything has fallen apart. She also completed a twin surrogacy, alone. Not because her life was easy. Because she had decided, quietly and without fanfare, to become the strongest version of herself before she let anyone else in.
She wasn't waiting to be rescued. She was becoming someone who didn't need to be.Their families had crossed paths for years. It was never the right moment. Then it was. Josh — MBA, MAcc, the kind of man who opens the car door every time not because he was told to but because that is just who he is — met her, and six weeks later they eloped. No grand production. Two people who simply knew.
He drives. She puts her feet up. That has been the whole arrangement from the start."Mr. Moon" began as an inside joke — a way to keep the sweet teasing alive between them. Over fourteen years it became the name for an idea: what does it actually look like when a man is fully, consistently on his partner's side? Not on special occasions. Every Tuesday. Every hard season. Every ordinary morning.
They have been through every kind of season a marriage moves through — the beautiful ones and the ones that tested everything. Their phrase "6 babies later" holds grief and gratitude in equal measure and they do not edit it out. What they have built is not a performance of a good marriage. It is an actual one — made of small, daily, consistent choices that most people stop making the moment life gets full.
That is the only thing they teach. Choose each other, out loud, on purpose, every day."Most people think the problem is romance. The problem is almost never romance. It is the Tuesday. The ordinary Tuesday when you are tired and you choose each other anyway — that is the whole thing."
— Dee Moon, M.Coun.
"After five years as a single mom, taking the time to heal and become the strongest version of myself — I finally met someone who has loved me the way I always dreamed of. For the last 13 years."
"At the end of the day, it's the one willing to jump over cars to get the door for you."
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