miniseries/E+/Getty Images The first night my kids went to their dad’s house, I sat on the couch and sobbed, scrolling through years of photos and videos on my phone. The silence was deafening, the absence unbearable. I didn’t know what to do if I couldn’t tuck them into bed, read to them, be there in...
It began as a typical Tuesday evening for *Beth Smith. After giving her two kids dinner, a bath, and tucking them in, she went downstairs to the home office computer to research ideas for a summer family vacation. While her husband, *Steven, was out with a client, Beth figured it was a perfect opportunity to...
TikTok Have you ever woken up one morning, suddenly repulsed by your spouse — when their presence sets a fiery rage into your heart, and you cannot stand them? It may last a few minutes, days or weeks, but eventually, you snap out of it, realizing you were just going through a harder time in...
STasker/Getty Images When I left, I didn’t take much. Some clothes for Joey and me. My toothbrush, my makeup. And Sundae, tail wagging, clueless to the life we were leaving behind. I thought maybe there would be a conversation later — some objection, some claim to her. But there wasn’t. Instead, when I returned the...