Erika Kirk is marking the primary Valentine’s Day with out her late husband, right-wing conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
“What I’d give for yet one more love letter… They’d such a deep reverence about them,” Erika, 37, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, February 14, alongside a photograph of a letter she acquired from her late husband previous to his premature dying.
“You’d deliberately put aside the noise of the world and hand me phrases that felt sacred stuffed with a depth of affection each of us may by no means fairly articulate,” she continued within the caption. “I learn all of it even slower now. And as I learn your phrases, the load on my coronary heart jogs my memory of a actuality that we have been by no means promised grey hair and rocking chairs regardless that we assumed it was assured. However my goodness, do I like telling the infants in regards to the fullness of our covenant that left a mark on my soul. My favourite love story.”
Charlie was shot and killed in September 2025 whereas talking at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. He was 31.
Charlie Kirk is being remembered on what would have been his thirty second birthday. A brand new video, shared by his widow, Erika Kirk, and his nonprofit Turning Level USA by way of Instagram on Tuesday, October 14, paid tribute to the reminiscences the right-wing influencer left behind together with his household, together with clips from the couple’s marriage ceremony day, the (…)
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we, the Turning Level USA management group, write to inform you that early this afternoon, Charlie went to his everlasting reward with Jesus Christ in heaven,” a press release from Turning Level USA learn on the time, confirming the political activist’s dying.
After a 33-hour manhunt, a 22-year-old suspect turned himself into authorities on the behest of his dad and mom, was subsequently arrested and charged for allegedly murdering Charlie. He’s at present being held with out bail in a Utah jail. If convicted, the 22-year-old faces the dying penalty.
Erika has since taken over as CEO of Turning Level USAthe right-wing conservative nonprofit cofounded by Charlie and Invoice Montgomery in 2012. Within the midst of pyrotechnic-heavy public remembrancesquite a few public appearances, conservative in-fighting and a controversial hug with Vice President JD VanceErika has been outspoken about her private expertise with grief.
“…there is no such thing as a linear blueprint for grief. Someday you’re collapsed on the ground crying out the title Jesus in between labored breaths,” Erika, 36, wrote by way of Instagram in October 2025. “The subsequent you’re taking part in together with your kids within the residing rooms surrounded by household photographs, and feeling a rush of one thing you possibly can solely try and outline as divinely planted and bittersweet pleasure as a smile breaks via your face.”
Erika Kirk (née Frantzve) celebrated her thirty seventh birthday with a throwback video of her late husband, Charlie Kirk. “I all the time liked celebrating you, and perhaps as a result of it was a mirrored image of how superbly you all the time celebrated me,” Erika captioned an Instagram video on Thursday, November 20. “I romanticized rising previous with you, the love of (…)
She continued on the time, “They are saying time heals. However love doesn’t ask to be healed. Love asks to be remembered. It’s humbling to understand that this magnitude of struggling didn’t steal my love for my husband. It amplified it. It crystallized it.”
On Valentine’s Day 2026, Erika went on to induce her followers to “honor the Sabbath this weekend together with your family members.”
“And should you’re married, take a minute to take a seat down and write to them a love letter. One which reveals you see them, you’re keen on them, you honor them, and also you wish to proceed to be higher for them,” she added. “A letter like this might sound trivial, however you simply by no means know the course life will take, if the Lord calls you residence, even in your absence, as they mirror in your phrases, your love remains to be serving them.”
She concluded with a particular message to her late husband, “I like you Charlie child, you’ll all the time be my Valentine.”