Someone Had to Stay

I was not asking too much.

I had been asking for the bare minimum, the absolute floor of what a partner owes, and I had been refused it on principle.

Knowing that did not make me happy.

But it freed me, and freedom, it turns out, is worth more than happiness when you have been trapped in doubt for years.

Chapter 14 — Then He Didn’t Sign Up to Be Her Father

And here is the strange thing.