I Love My Husband — But I Want to Leave Him
When you’re feeling trapped in your marriage
Recently, I’ve been contemplating divorcing my husband.
I’ve been daydreaming about it — breaking free from the confines of marriage and being single again. I think it’s something a lot of married people go through from time to time, and although it’s a difficult thing to talk about, it shouldn’t be something we feel we have to hide or be ashamed of.
I’ve jumped from one monogamous relationship to the next since I was 16 years old — and being free and single has been looking nice and shiny as of late.
Even though my relationship has been going through a really rough patch, I still want to try to work through it. Part of that means giving myself some time and space away from my partner. I’ve needed it, especially after the debacle where I checked his phone and found texts to another woman outlining some pretty hurtful criticisms of me.
In an odd turn of events, that very woman is out with my husband in my living room right now. She and another woman are here to do some work with him on a film project. They are both gorgeous, smart, talented ladies, and it’s difficult not to feel like I pale in comparison as I hide away in my bedroom and tap away at my keyboard, unleashing my lone-wolf-writer…
