Three Months Pregnant, I Signed the Divorce Papers While My Husband Rushed to Another Woman—Ten Years Later, He Shook Our Son’s Hand Without Knowing Who He Was

“And eventually?”

I stared.

“Eventually it became harder to admit I had waited.”

There.

Same mechanism that had kept Lucas from contacting me harder.

Delay becomes shame.

Shame produces more delay.

The evaluator wrote it down.