My Daughter Took My Hand After School and Said, “Mom, Divorce Dad — He Doesn’t Love Us.” That Night, Over One Chicken Leg, I Finally Listened
I had already, before he was even awake, made an appointment with a friend of mine who practices family law.
When I stood and reached for my purse, Zachary let out a disbelieving laugh.
“You’re seriously going to blow up a five-year marriage over a chicken leg?”
“No,” I said, and I looked directly into his eyes as I said it, so there could be no mistaking me.
“I’m going to end it after five years of everything you keep calling just a chicken leg.”
I dressed Chloe, and I walked out the front door with her hand in mine.