After fifty years of marriage, I never thought I’d be the one asking for an ending. At seventy-five, most people cling tightly to what they have left. But I found myself wanting out—not because Charles had wronged me, not because he’d changed, but because I had. Somewhere between raising children, caring for parents, building a home, and smoothing over every bump in our lives, I had stopped existing as myself. I had become an extension of him, of our routine, of the quiet predictability that once comforted me but now felt like a slow suffocation….CONTINUE READING IN BELOW
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