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A Promise to Figure It Out

Trying to reassure me, my husband promised we’d get to the bottom of it all. His words were meant to comfort, but I wished he’d pay more attention.

‘We’ll figure it out, I promise,’ he’d say when the tension grew. While his assurances helped temporarily, the feeling of something being terribly wrong wouldn’t leave me.

It felt like a weight pressing down each day, urging us to find the answers hidden in the shadows.