The Wives

by Tarryn Fisher

In a normal marriage, you wake up beside a person, validate your life with their sleep-soaked body. There are routines and schedules, and they get boring, but they are a comfort, as well.

You don’t have to give up something you love just because other people disapprove,

He just smiled at me, and I knew right then that I was in trouble.

But now I see the truth: women are stuck in a cycle of insecurity perpetuated by the way men treat them,

A woman in love loses her sight first and then her courage.