Love, Trauma, and Redemption: A Woman's Struggle

on me, something

ecause, at the age of s

't mind my past, yet in the two years

y test and the divorce papers in fron

o years of marriage, this outcome

ce we wed, we never h

r as childhood sweethearts, and our

and in everyone's eyes, he

spberry leaf tea and a heating pad for me. He was considerate

ense of security, but I couldn't

ated by a

when I was seventeen, I was wearing a summer dress

lton's eyes when he found me. So much so tha

mare. Cooperating with the police investigati

n the hospital were used

nd the reporters' cameras drove me to

t at night, criticized my choice of wearing a dress, and s

inful, and to end this suffering,

y eyes, ready to leap,

t hesitation, proposed to me,

earned I had se

ons in my dreams tormented my mind, and m

was always by my side, caring f

y heart, things

nd and hug me, but he w

but his panicked avoi

e pressed his lips to mine, but the

stead, I was grateful

riage, I repeatedly

, sometimes grinning with joy, othe

ssurance, and he patiently p

res like a painting. Everything was perfect. I wore a white wedd

d red wine on my pristine dress. It was a symboli

t. In five years of marriage, neither Kolton no

ly wiped the lipstick marks from his neck