Dear Husband I'm Done Being Your Wife. Let's Divorce

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hear her own daughter say she hates her-and

you and Mommy g

want Aunt Beth to

nto pieces. My daughter Zora's words were spoken in a sw

nd how things tu

nly, the child I carried for nine months, endured over ten hours of labor to bri

lt this way, and I s

y pain-but only for a moment. Then, the cruel irony of what came next cut even deeper.

th we'd all go to the amusement park together

ll be really good. I won't let Mommy find ou

said, stroking their daug

of father and daughte

srespect toward me-he was just making sure

e the room, thick with complaint. "Can't she even handle getting breakfast? W

doesn't come, I can finally eat what I like. When

akfast I had spent all morning carefully preparing for my daughter. The hospital c

caused her to be born prematurely. I had always carried that guilt. So from th

out her diet. I even earned a professional nutritionist certification for her sake. But my mother-in-law had alway

y inadequacy. If Zora recovered, it was all thanks to her son

argued. I simply bore the responsibi

eturning to work. But after only a few days of my stepping b

llergic to carrots. She'd accidentall

. The moment she stabilized, I rushed home w

lked into: my daughter and husband's fa

ulated bag in my hands a

y life co

a highly sought-after ge

er-the man who had broken both his legs saving

t. I had intended to leave quietly once he recovered. But on the night of

en so drunk that night that he mistook m

I decided to leave, but his grandfather in

was pregnant. Back then,

side me. And perhaps, if I were hone

the picture of romance. But I thought we had a peacef

dy reconnected with his first love, who had just ret

th Aunt Beth," Zora's voice drif

calmly. "I'll ask her t

n my pocket. I pulled it out. A me

ep breath,

e hospital with her. You were with her all last nig

the first time he had lied to me like this. Playing the pa

t. Blinking back tears,

ka

Zora. She was beaming, radiant with joy. It was painfully clear

est tore open agai

the carefully prepared meal I ha

ace might as well have never existed. I took a deep breath a

to a number saved at the very bottom,

instantly. Thomas's voice

your mind?" He was holding his

, I didn'

to the company as soon as possible. I'm going to pu

haled, a rare note of

been stunned. As the president of a world-leading pharmaceut

I'll send the driv

works for me. I

paused. Then, his tone sharpened. "Did you fight with Adrian? Did he do

im. I was already

the company, even though Thomas and I had founded it together. But Thomas's

ack while I worried about his feelings. Why sh

then thought better of it. "All righ

opened a message to m

e lawyer in Seattle. I'm