My coworker is divorcing her husband after fifteen years together.
He cheated for two months and she found out and she's leaving and everyone has an opinion about it apparently.
People keep asking her if she's really going to throw away fifteen years over two months. Like she's the one making the reckless decision. Like she's the one who did something impulsive that needs to be reconsidered.
And every single time she says the same thing.
I didn't throw away the life. He did.
I need people to really hear that because she is so correct it should be printed somewhere. She didn't throw anything away. She showed up for fifteen years. She was there. She did the work. She honored what they built.
He threw it away. He made that choice, two months of choices actually, and now everyone is standing around asking her to absorb the consequences of his decision quietly and keep the marriage intact so nobody has to be uncomfortable.
The audacity of........
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