Healing

You know something is wrong. You have known for a while — long enough that people who love you have started to say things. And yet there is a pull that doesn’t respond to logic, that survives every conversation where you talked yourself into leaving and then found yourself back again. The relationship has a…

You still share the same bed. You coordinate the kids’ schedules, split the household tasks, ask about each other’s days. From the outside — and sometimes even from the inside — it looks like a functioning marriage. But somewhere along the way, the part of you that used to reach toward your partner stopped reaching….