My Husband and I Divorced After 36 Years – at His Funeral, His Dad Had Too Much to Drink and Said, ‘You Don’t Even Know What He Did for You, Do You?’

of perfection doesn’t truly exist in reality, that something hidden had to be quietly breaking beneath the surface.

I’d known Troy since we were five.

We married at 20, when it didn’t feel strange or too fast.

We didn’t have much, but we never worried about it. Life felt simple for years, as though the future would sort itself out.

Then came the children:continue reading …