Three months after giving birth, I was still bleeding when my husband opened the door and said calmly, “She’s moving in. I want a divorce.” His mistress stood behind him, smiling like she’d already won. I signed the papers with a cold smile that scared even me. Months later, when they saw me again, his face drained of color—and I finally asked, “Miss me?”
Three months after giving birth, my body still felt like it didn’t belong to me. I was bleeding, exhausted, and surviving on broken sleep and cold coffee. That afternoon, I stood in the kitchen of the house I had helped buy, rocking my son with one arm while folding laundry with the other. When the…