It caused me such intense physical pain to let her walk away from me; to let her say those things about herself and not correct her. I stumbled around the house to my car and started driving away. Around the corner from the house I had to pull over to vomit on the side of the road. I thought when I left her 16 years ago that was the hardest thing I’d do but this was so much worse. She was my wife now. We’d made a home for our kids. We were a family. But since I showed up at her office that first day, she’s been a magnet for shitty people wanting to inflict harm on her. That couldn’t be a coincidence. Maybe I was wrong about her being my one true love. Maybe I was destined to want her from afar but only brought her pain if I got too close. Maybe I was a horrible person in a past life and

