“But it was an identity I had wanted my whole life. I wasn’t going to be a quitter. To me, a failed marriage was just as bad as cancer or one of us dying. So when it got bad, I struggled to stay and try everything. And almost immediately, all the things that had mattered so much before marriage barely came up after. Just becoming a wife changed me, and a mother (again) changed me.
I will never get married again. I think even living together is risky. I was so miserable being single in my 20s, I didn’t realize the depths of despair and depression you can get to when married. I left a few years ago, and no matter how bad life gets, I’m so happy on my own.”
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