This is one I've been sitting with:

Someone I loved gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow”


Me: 30
H: 29
M: 2 yrs
T: 5 years
BD: 12/14/12
Divorce talk begins 1/6/13
I filed: 5/20/13 -- no contact since