The Day I Stopped Waiting for One Person to Meet Every Need
There was no dramatic argument that changed my life. There wasn't a moment when I packed a suitcase, stormed out the door, or finally reached the end of my patience. The change happened much more quietly than that. It arrived on an ordinary evening after what looked like an ordinary conversation. My husband and I had talked about our day, discussed a few practical matters, and exchanged the kind of words that, from the outside, probably appeared completely normal. Yet when the conversation ended, I found myself sitting alone in the living room with an ache I could no longer ignore. It wasn't anger that I felt. It wasn't even disappointment anymore. It was a deep, familiar loneliness that had slowly settled into the background of my life until it felt almost ordinary. As I sat there, I began to realize something that had never occurred to me before. Without intending to, I had built my entire emotional world around one person. Every hope for comfort, understanding, enc...
