There had never been anything there.

I had married a hollow place shaped like a man, and it had taken me until that hospital room, listening to him price my children’s lives against his child-support payments, to finally see all the way to the bottom of the emptiness.

And strangely, that was the moment I stopped being afraid of him.

You cannot be heartbroken by a thing that has no heart.

You can only walk away from it.