Facebook’s second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg has shared an open letter thanking her fiance Tom Bernthal for assisting her uncover like once more following the death of her husband. Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died all of a sudden in 2015. He was 48.
“When I lost Dave in 2015, my whole world turned upside down,” Ms Sandberg, 51, wrote in an Instagram post in which she revealed she had penned an open letter to her fiance in Good Housekeeping. “I really wasn’t sure I could ever devote my heart to another person like that,” she confessed.
“Everything changed” for the Facebook operations chief when her late husband’s brother, Rob, introduced her to his buddy Tom Bernthal.
“Today, I’m sharing an open love letter to my fiance in @goodhousekeeping,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg. “With Tom, I learned that Option B can be filled with profound joy. Together with our blended family, we have found a new path forward, one filled with so much gratitude and optimism.”
Ms Sandberg had announced her engagement to the co-founder and chief executive officer of advertising enterprise Kelton Global final year. “Engaged!!! Tom Bernthal, you are my everything. I could not love you more,” she wrote in February 2020 when announcing her engagement.
In her open letter, Ms Sandberg touched upon the several excellent qualities of her fiance – which includes his “remarkable generosity and warmth as a partner and parent” – and thanked him for becoming involved in the lives of their youngsters.
“The truth is, I was just so tired before you, Tom… But together, we have found a new path forward,” she wrote in the open letter which was published Thursday in Good Housekeeping.
She concluded her letter by thanking Tom Bernthal for assisting her uncover like once more following a good loss, confessing that she would probably normally have grief in her heart for her initially husband. “But you know that, and you understand and respect it, which makes me love you even more,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg.
“Thanks to you, I have come to discover that Option B can also be filled with profound happiness.”