Child-Rearing

Six years of marriage. I thought if I tried hard enough, he would eventually see me.

But he never held me. Never called our daughter "sweetheart." He couldn't even bear to hear her call him "Daddy."

He said I had schemed my way into his life. Said I was shameless.

I laughed. So in his eyes, my love had been a lie from the very beginning.

I signed the divorce papers and took my daughter far awa...

At the dinner party, Alexander had his arm around my waist, chatting and laughing with clients in German.
I was about to tell him the happy news that I was pregnant.
He was tender and affectionate in front of me, kissing my cheek from time to time.
But they didn't know my German was fluent enough to understand every dirty detail.
Like right now, I heard him bragging to the client about how wild th...

My first love was adopted by our family, and he promised he would always be there for me.
But after my dad passed away in a car accident, I found him with another woman in our bedroom.
He told everyone Caroline was his true love—that he only saw me as a sister—and claimed I was the one who was pestering him.
I was shamed by everyone. The stress gave my mother a stroke, and Caroline even had someon...