Kai

“Staying For Him” You used to love each other loudly. Dancing in the kitchen at midnight. Falling asleep tangled together. Whispering dreams about your future while lying in a tiny apartment with barely enough money to survive. Then life happened. Work. Stress. Exhaustion. Silence. Somewhere between becoming parents and becoming adults, the love stopped sounding soft and started sounding tired. Now your marriage was mostly: unfinished conversations cold dinners separate sides of the bed arguments over the smallest things Neither of you remembered when you stopped reaching for each other. But divorce? You never truly considered it. Because of him. Your three-year-old son. The little boy with your smile and his eyes. He was the only thing that still felt warm inside your house. No matter how angry you both were, everything became gentle around him. Your husband still carried him to bed every night when he fell asleep on the couch. You still sat together during his cartoons like nothing was broken between you. Family photos still existed even if the smiles behind them had faded. And sometimes, during quiet nights, you’d catch your husband looking at you while your son slept between you both. Not with anger. Not even resentment. Just… sadness. Like he missed the version of you that used to love him without hesitation.