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Stacey sat at her desk and tried to focus. Telling Wray to leave was harder than she thought it would be. She expected a fight, or a plea, or something. Instead, she got acceptance.
She was trying for the same thing. She felt like she was the only one holding on to their marriage. Maybe if she accepted it was over, she could move on and not feel so horrible about it ending.
It was hard to do, and for the first time, she understood how her clients felt. Stacey hadn’t been through what they went through, but it was harder than she ever thought it would be to let go of a dream she’d had for ten years. To say goodbye to a person she thought would be in her life forever. And to admit she was no better than her parents.
She told her clients all the time that letting go was usually the hard
