Chapter 11 - Laura and I had not been perfect
Our divorce happened because we were bad at being married.
Not because Warren stole her from me.
No affair.
No secret betrayal.
Laura and I had married at twenty-six.
Emily at thirty-one.
Ryan at twenty-seven? Wait.
Ryan was fourteen at the time of incident, so he was born when we were around twenty-seven.
Then Emily four years later.
We accumulated ordinary resentments.
I traveled too much for regional sales.
Laura carried too much parenting.
She became sarcastic.
I became defensive.
Counseling.
Separation.
Divorce.
We were better co-parents than spouses.
That mattered because people assumed after Warren’s arrest:
Nathan and Laura get back together.
No.
Trauma does not retroactively fix compatibility.
I loved Laura as the mother of my children.
I wanted her safe.
I did not want our old marriage reconstructed because another man behaved worse.
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She did not either.
Healthy endings do not always restore the original couple.
