After My Husband Left For Miami I Discovered He Had Locked Me And Our Son Inside Our Own House

of fear that had kept me silent for too long.

Some things you lose, and you grieve them, and then you discover that what you were really grieving was not the thing itself but the version of yourself that believed you could not survive without it.

Leo had the right word for it, as children often do.

This was my family.

And it was enough.