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“If you see people by their actions, then you’ll never be fooled by their words.”
The stigma of a stay-at-home mom is still so prevalent. No one realizes just how busy you really are when you’re the sole caretaker of children. I went from counting down the seconds to bedtime somedays, to having rowdy teenagers slamming doors in my face, to kissing them both goodbye, knowing they’d never ever need me the way they had always needed me. I had to rediscover myself beyond mom.
“Because if you were mine, there’s no way in hell I’d leave you alone with a man better looking than me…”
“I’m an uninteresting, married, mom of two teenagers. Trust me when I say, you don’t want to eat what I’m serving.” Behind me, Adam gripped the stair railing. “You couldn’t be more wrong.”
“I wouldn’t react; I’d play it cool and find out every single thing I needed to. You can’t pull the trigger with an empty gun.”
Because at the end of the day, I may have been an unlucky wife, but when it came to best friends… I was clearly lucky. I had best friends who were thinking ten steps ahead of me about how to cover the murder of the man who betrayed me.
People joke about anxiety and depression. It’s easy to say you’re depressed or anxious when you’re really just feeling the normal range of human emotions. It’s okay to be unhappy or nervous and not be clinically labeled. It’s okay to not be okay. As mothers and wives, that’s a concept that quickly becomes foreign to us. Really, as women, we are groomed to never show those feelings of being completely overwhelmed or miserable.
We both loved the epic escape that literature provided us—we could be anyone we wanted to.
My fists clenched and the only reason I didn’t push the ladder off the window with her on it was because I knew one thing… I looked terrible in orange.
They say be the bigger person. But I’m now realizing that when they go low, it’s so much more fun to go lower.
Everything was about to change, and change terrified me. Change was uncomfortable, unsettling, yet undeniable.
