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“And what about us? The life we built together…
doesn’t that matter?”
It’s hard to explain how cold the room felt after she left. The empty silence screamed louder than any shouting match ever could.
That night, Sophie, my oldest, tugged at my sleeve while I sat on the couch, frozen. “Daddy, is Mommy mad at us?
Is she coming back?”
I opened my mouth, but no words came out. How do you explain to a five-year-old that their mother chose to walk away?
The next few weeks were brutal.
I couldn’t eat. Or sleep. The hardest part wasn’t Miranda’s absence — it was what she left behind.
The kids. Their questions. Their innocent belief that “Mommy would come home soon.”
And then there were the texts and calls from my family.
I was ashamed… ashamed that I couldn’t hold my family together, ashamed that I had no explanation for why my wife had run away.
I started dodging calls, letting messages pile up unanswered. What could I even say? That I wasn’t good enough for her?
I stumbled through, clinging to a routine like it was a lifeboat.
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