Lived Through This

He Thought We’d Be ‘Better Off’

Two years ago, my husband of 18 years took his life. I’m still coming to terms with why.

Jennifer B. Calder
Human Parts
Published in
19 min readSep 28, 2020

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My charming, brilliant, handsomely dimpled, fun-loving husband of 18 years and father of our three sons, ages 12, 13, and 16, killed himself on July 2, 2018.

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Jennifer B. Calder
Human Parts

Jennifer B. Calder is an award-winning longform profile and feature writer and lives in Westfield, NJ. https://www.clippings.me/users/jbcalder