My Life, From 2012–2020

Please Stop Telling Me To Leave Him

I’m still with him because I can’t.

Photo by Jeremy Bezanger on Unsplash

[Beginning note: this is what I’ll call a “retro-story” of sorts. It’s no longer true for me, but it was up until recently. The thoughts and feelings are still fresh.]

I married a dark man. That’s not surprising; I was in a dark place at the time we met…