Forsaken Wife

I met him back in 2007. I was 24 and he was 19, it was a whirlwind romance and within two weeks he had moved in. We shared every spare moment together, grew so close, we became one person.

We moved away to run a pub and moved back again. In 2010, we got married and bought our house, our family had started to take off. We shared everything, money, friends, family, thoughts, pain, happiness. We were meant to be.

Our son was born in December 2011. The son that he had always wanted. His birth only brought us closer together, that very first moment we heard our boy cry just cemented our love.

Then he was diagnosed with depression. He became aggressive and sometimes withdrawn. The baby brought with him sleepless nights and tiredness, our love life suffered but family life blossomed. In August, when our boy was just 8 months old, he decided he didnt love me anymore and replaced me with someone new, he left us.

This is my journey as a hurt, abandoned wife, a unplanned single mother and a confused, scared, almost destroyed human being.