Just one year into the marriage, and her husband still spent every night in his mother’s bedroom.
Grace had always believed that marriage meant partnership — two people moving through life side by side, sharing laughter, challenges, victories, and even the quiet, ordinary days that make up most of a lifetime. She never imagined a reality where she would sleep alone every night after only one year of being a wife. Yet that was exactly the reality she found herself living in.
When she and Ethan first married, their home felt warm and promising, like a canvas waiting to be filled with new memories. But slowly, over the months, something began pulling Ethan away from her — something unseen, something unspoken, something rooted long before Grace ever entered his life. At first, it was small. A gentle comment here. A request from his mother there.A worry he didn’t want to burden Grace with.
Mrs. Turner, frail yet intensely perceptive, had been struggling since the death of her husband the previous year. She often called Ethan late in the evening, her voice trembling as she said she couldn’t sleep, that she felt unwell, that her heart seemed to…
Grace had always believed that marriage meant partnership — two people moving through life side by side, sharing laughter, challenges, victories, and even the quiet, ordinary days that make up most of a lifetime. She never imagined a reality where she would sleep alone every night after only one year of being a wife. Yet that was exactly the reality she found herself living in.
When she and Ethan first married, their home felt warm and promising, like a canvas waiting to be filled with new memories. But slowly, over the months, something began pulling Ethan away from her — something unseen, something unspoken, something rooted long before Grace ever entered his life. At first, it was small. A gentle comment here. A request from his mother there.A worry he didn’t want to burden Grace with.
Mrs. Turner, frail yet intensely perceptive, had been struggling since the death of her husband the previous year. She often called Ethan late in the evening, her voice trembling as she said she couldn’t sleep, that she felt unwell, that her heart seemed to…
