Hi Abi, and thank you for speaking your truth here with me. Shedding layers is an apt description. I fully relate. My family (parents, siblings) are just now starting to share stories with me of incidences and comments he made when we were married that shocked them, yet they didn’t share to protect me. I wish they had. I wish they’d intervened. But I get it — people don’t want to get involved in what they don’t fully understand. I don’t blame anyone for anything. I just keep moving forward to heal.

Sending you healing thoughts, too. xx