09/16/2026
married at 28. blindsided at 30. by the time the papers were signed i’d stopped recognizing my own face in photos.
nobody tells you grief has a body. mine gained 45 pounds and stopped sleeping and stopped answering texts.
i didn’t heal on a deadline. some weeks nothing moved at all.
what actually changed it wasn’t a plan, it was one morning deciding i was allowed to want my life back.
still her. just done disappearing.