The Freedom Fund: A Wife’s Secret Savings, A Marriage’s Public Collapse

will leave a letter on the kitchen counter, take my $50,000+, and drive away to a small apartment I’ve already scouted in a different state. A place where nobody asks me where their socks are. A place where nobody asks, “What’s for dinner?”

Sometimes, I watch Mike sleeping in front of the football game on TV. I feel a strange mix of sadness and pity.continue reading …