Me
Our older children had different reactions to the separation.
Some were upset. Some worried about their father. Others admitted that they had noticed the imbalance in our marriage long before I had spoken about it.
I didn’t ask them to agree with me.
I told them that their father and I loved them, that our relationship was an adult matter, and that they did not need to choose sides.
I also told them something I wished someone had told me when I was twenty-three.
“Being a good wife or