It clarified it, to a point almost unbearable.

It took a woman who had spent years unable to see clearly what her marriage was costing her, and it handed her, in an instant, a lens that burned away everything that was not essential, and left standing only the truth: that man is not safe, that house is not a home, this child is my entire life, and I will burn the whole world to the ground before I let her grow up believing she belongs to people who lock her out in the rain.

I was not weak that night.

I have never been stronger.