Christmas living room. Photo by Chad Madden on Unsplash

The Real Nightmare Before Christmas

My Worst Nightmare Was Abandonment, and It Came True

One week before Christmas my husband of thirteen years deserted me. It was one of the coldest nights of the year and snowing. All the Christmas decorations were up, I had wrapped all of his presents, and the ingredients for our Christmas dinner had been purchased the day before. The tree was lit and the front of our…