I mean, it takes two people, and you certainly didn’t do it all by yourself.

I’m not sure, maybe send an email and include a picture of the two of you together, just so they know its real? I’d also tell them something like “I’m not asking for anything from you, I just want you to know. Here is my information if you would like to get in contact in the future.”

But theres a lot of cultural context that I don’t know, that could affect how it would be interpreted