He feels he doesn’t have anything to offer . . . She’s going to prove him wrong . . . This past year has been the worst of my life. I’m not the same man that I used to be. I’m not whole . Besides my own pain, I’ve hurt my kids and my wife of twenty years. I can’t let her touch me, hold me . . . love me. I try to push her away because they’re all better off without me. But even knowing that's true . . . I’m weak. I can’t live without her. I know I have to do better. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to be the man she needs. Because I may have lost a part of me, but it’s her that makes me whole.

Publication Year: 2021