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In Sorrow comes the Sisterhood
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So, a couple of years ago, my husband left me for another woman while I was recovering from a mastectomy. Yeah, that sucked. Talk about a kick to the gut, right?
I’d had no clue. I thought our marriage was working. I asked him, when he told me he was leaving, if counseling would help.
“No,” he said. “We don’t need counseling. I’ve been happy in the marriage. But Diane’s my soul mate, we’ve reconnected and we’ve been talking every day for the past two months.”
“But… you guys divorced! Twenty five years ago! How can you be soul mates if you got divorced? And we’ve been married for 18 years, going on 19… and you just said you’re happy in our marriage… I don’t understand!”
“Look,” he said. “It’s not that I don’t love you. I do. And I have been happy in our marriage. But… I have to do this. I’m moving out tomorrow. There is nothing to discuss.”
He stood up. Our discussion was over.
I stood up too. “Alright,” I said. “But understand this. If you walk out that door tomorrow, you are NOT coming back.”
I don’t think he believed me. But I meant it. He moved out the next day. I changed the locks the day after that.
