Chapter 1
Kamden
The foundation forms he’d spent three weeks getting permitted were sitting in six inches of muddy water. Kamden watched fo...
One Thursday Afternoon
This story contains themes of: cheating, depression
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Story Notes
I want to be clear about something before you read this. Kelli is not the bad guy. Neither is Kamden. This is a story about two people who both made terrible decisions inside a marriage that never should have happened. Kamden stayed too long and loved someone else. Kelli suffered from depression she never fully addressed, including post partum depression. Had she gotten the help she truly needed, I don’t think this story ends this way. They might have parted sooner, more gently, before the damage reached their daughters. Instead, two broken people stayed in a broken marriage until it shattered. This story contains that shattering.
Please take care of yourself while reading.
Summary
Before Kamden knocked on Aileen's door, before he told her the truth about twenty years of silence. Before everything changed there was a Thursday afternoon that shattered his world. A marriage that ended in real time. Two daughters who needed him to hold it together. And a night in his father's kitchen where he couldn't. This is Kamden's side. The cost of staying. And the moment he finally let go.
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