My devastating actions were catastrophic for me and many others, and there’s no justification for my actions. I was responsible to make better choices, and I willfully ignored that responsibility, and people I love very much were hurt. No one wanders into these kinds of dark, compartmentalized corners because they want to hurt those they love. For example, I wasn’t thinking about how my repeated selfishness would deeply wound my kids. Who knows, maybe if I had, I would’ve saved myself and countless others a lot of heartache. Maybe. But I was thinking about me—what I wanted, not what others
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