You and Conor are my everything.” I scoff and roll my eyes. “You are. But I lost myself in being a mother and a wife. You guys left home, and I didn’t know who I was. I thought after you left, your dad and I would reconnect. That we’d find one another again, fall back in love. But while I tried to book vacations and date nights, your dad threw himself into his work. And I get it. It was the easy thing to do for him. The house was empty. There were no more practices to carpool to. No more footsteps running down the stairs. It was just silence.”
