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’

“Packing enough for a few days.”

“I thought you wanted me to stay.”

I set the suitcase on the bed. “I did. Then I spent an hour asking myself why.”

His face tightened. “And?”

He stepped into the room. “Alicia, I didn’t ask for a divorce because I stopped caring about you.”

“No. You asked because you decided you understood my feelings better than I did.”

I folded a sweater and placed it inside the case.

Theo stared at me. “You’re just walking away?”

“I’m stopping something I’ve done for years.”

“What?”

“Trying to make myself useful enough so that nobody leaves me.”

He sat on the edge of the bed.

I zipped open the side pocket of my suitcase.