With a Broken Arm and No Support, I Took Back My Life: A Marriage Lesson, a Divorce Lawyer, and a Fresh Start

On paper, I was his wife.

In practice, I was his unpaid staff.

Even now, injured and exhausted, he expected me to make his life run smoothly.

I didn’t yell.

I didn’t cry.

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I smiled.

“Okay,” I said. “I’ll take care of it.”

His face relaxed immediately.

“Knew you would,” he said, as if my agreement proved something good about him.

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He left that evening to meet friends and “kick off the weekend.”

And I sat at the kitchen table, my cast propped on a pillow, and started making calls.

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