When Women Leave Good Men
On honoring your own feelings rather than society’s expectations
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4 min readDec 11, 2019
My fingers were flying across my keyboard late one night after my husband and I split, hoping Google would be able to validate my seemingly tactless behavior. I searched “My husband is great and I left him,” “I left a good man, now what?,” “Am I making a mistake for leaving a good man?,” and “Why did I leave a…