I Lived 5 Years in Guilt After Losing My Baby… Then the Woman I Hated Set Me Free

He said he couldn’t live in a house filled with “what could have been.” He went back to his ex-wife, Claire, as if our life together had been a detour he could simply erase.

I didn’t fight him.

I believed I didn’t deserve to.

For five years, I carried that guilt like a shadow stitched to my skin.

Every time I passed a park, every time I saw a newborn wrapped in soft blankets, I felt it tighten around my chest.

You did this.