I Worked Nights and Nursed My Husband Through Cancer – The Week He Was Declared Cancer-Free, He Asked for a Divorce, but His Doctor Stopped Me and Said, ‘There’s Something You Should Know’

She simply opened it wider when she saw my red eyes.

“Tea?” she asked.

Five minutes later, I sat at her kitchen table with both hands around a mug.

“Do you want me to tell you what to do?” Mom asked.

“No.”

“Good. Because I have no idea.”

I almost smiled.

Then I told her everything.

When I finished, she touched my wrist.

“You can love someone and still be unhappy with the life you’re building together.”

“What if he was right?”

“What if I stayed because he needed me?”

Mom leaned back.

“I can’t answer that for you.”

I hated the answer because it was honest.

Then she said, “You’ve been saying ‘I’ve got it’ since you were 12.”

She raised an eyebrow.

“Okay. Maybe I do.”