I have to write this down. I’m tired.
The only reason I am still around is because I made a promise to myself 18 years ago that I would see this through. I have brought up two girls, and one wife. I have tried to get them to be their own people, but they continue to lean on me, and I am starting to fall. Someday, I told myself, I would be able to be at peace. After the girls are on their own, and able to fend for themselves. For the past twenty years, my wife has degraded, not grown. Now in the afternoon of […]