After thirty years of marriage, I asked my husband, Zack, for a divorce—on the very day we should have been celebrating our anniversary. To him, it felt sudden and impossible to understand. He believed he had been a steady, loyal partner and was proud of the life we built. But while he saw peace, I had spent years feeling invisible, unheard, and quietly overwhelmed. When our youngest left home, the silence finally made me face my own unhappiness.
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