“Over the past…six months, I guess, I’ve felt a shift in our marriage, like our connection has been sand slipping through my fingers and no matter how hard I grasped, I couldn’t stop losing it. I tried to ask Aiden what was going on, but he’s been evasive. And I just felt…defeated. So I asked for space, because I couldn’t stand going through the motions anymore. “If you had asked me when we got married if I could ever see our communication having so fundamentally broken down, that I would be this numb and hopeless, that Aiden could be disengaged and blindsided by my feelings, I would have
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