Surprising News:Aaron Banks Receive A Divorce Letter Just…
I’m leaving. We’re through.” My husband growled the unspeakable.
I felt shocked. Angry. Numb. The divorce announcement promising our marriage dissolving sparked fear inside of me.
It would’ve been easier if we could slam the door and walk away to cool down a bit. That way, I could decide if he meant it or not.
The only problem was we were parked on the side of I-40 somewhere in the middle of a 22-hour drive home. I sat crying in the backseat, trying to administer medicine to our 3-month-old who just had her second open-heart surgery five days before.
Not exactly the easiest place to express—or even believe in—our never-ending love for each other.
So I don’t know why the divorce announcement came as a surprise to me. Plenty of people had sufficiently warned us.
Even our daughter’s doctor encouraged us before her birth to consider the impact her health would have on our marriage, too.
“This is the thing marriages crumble under. This type of life: caring for a chronically-ill child. This type of stress: the surgeries, the hospitalizations, the never knowing if she’ll make it,” he said. “I see it every day. You certainly can stick it out. And I hope you do! That’s why I want you to be aware it’s about to get so much more complicated to make it.”
