I hadn’t felt real joy in my heart for years, but the thought of not being with Matt was too hard to bear. We loved each other with every ounce of our hearts, but in truth we had become best friends more than life partners. With every day, I felt more trapped and stuck in a life that I had worked so hard to create. The thought of saying goodbye to the one person who had been by my side through my entire adult life was too hard to comprehend. I was petrified of being alone and of nothing coming in to take its place.
