Divorce ?... That's Foreplay
“So what, after saying and I quote ‘Aiden is just a friend,’ ‘You need to stop believing anything would ever happen between Aiden and I,’ you just forgot all that?”
“He divorced me!” I snapped, my voice breaking before I could stop it. “I never… never thought about leaving him. I tried to fix our marriage. I booked therapy for us, he showed up only the first day and forgot the rest. I tried guidance and counseling and he never came. Sex stopped being sex. The only reason I have Hope is because one night he came home drunk out of his mind. From the next day after he woke up in bed with me, he went from coming home at 3 a.m. to not coming back at all, and still I never complained. I faked my smile for two years, I forgot what a real one felt like. He promised he’d be there and he wasn’t. I loved him so much that my husband cheated on me and I still never thought about divorcing him. I was just going to take a trip, clear my head, and come back to playing wife to a ghost. He broke his vows first, and somehow I’m the one at fault for marrying
someone who actually chose to stay.”
By the time I finished, I was panting, my chest tight. The silence that followed was deafening. I hadn’t realized how much I’d been holding in until it spilled out.