Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience

by Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

My heartbreaks had taught me so much.

How could I tell her that we have to take charge of our own happiness and not rely on any one person, especially our spouse, to be the happiness-maker in our lives? That just because we love differently doesn’t mean we don’t love. That just because we handle hard things differently doesn’t mean we don’t hurt. That just because we don’t express ourselves the same way doesn’t mean we don’t feel.