He Made Me Financially Dependent So I’d Never Leave — He Forgot I Used to Be a Risk Analyst, and I’d Been Preparing for Eleven Months

But none of this is your fault, and neither of you has to fix anything.

That is not your job.

That is never going to be your job.”

Lucas swallowed, and looked down, and asked the next question, the one underneath the first one.

“Does he still love us?”

I took his small hand.