It has been 11 months since you told me you didn’t love me anymore. It has been 11 months since I felt you next to me at night, since I called you baby, since I kissed you when you got home from work, since we made love, since I felt like I had a home.…

I cried countless times during the marriage, but nothing compares to the way I sobbed my heart out through the divorce. I was thrown into the grief I had been trying to avoid for a long time. I cried so hard the day of court that I had to pull over in a Starbucks parking…

I am just another divorced woman now. These are the words that sit on my chest like bricks when I try to breathe. I am just another divorced woman, another single mother, another failed marriage. He told me he wasn’t IN love with me anymore, and that he hadn’t been in years. I had thought…