I accidentally overheard my husband complaining to his friends, calling me a brainless, useless woman who had accomplished nothing in her entire life.

that beside me?”

His friends said something in response, but I could barely hear them anymore.

I stood behind the wall with our five-month-old son against my chest and thought about the last thirty-two years of my life.

I remembered the diploma I had put away in a closet after getting married.

I remembered turning down job offers because another one of our children was still too young.

I remembered staying awake night after night while my husband calmly left for work the next morning.

I remembered how he traveled

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