I Cleared My Husband’s $300,000 Debt, Then He Told Me to Pack My Things

that wasn’t mine, because my competence had always been treated as communal property. I would move into a life where my energy, my savings, my sleep would become fuel for his survival.

I said yes anyway.

I told myself I was saving us. I told myself this was what vows meant. I told myself love was an action, and I could do hard things.

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