the day I told him I was pregnant, and his face curdled like bad milk. There’s no pain on earth like that. It’s horror, shame, humiliation, rejection, anguish, disillusionment, and abandonment, all in one. When she’s made to feel worthless by the man who holds her heart, a woman either crumbles and never recovers or grows a callus over the pain to survive. In my case, I grew an entire suit of armor.

