You were told to stay for the kids. You were told that a broken home was the ultimate tragedy, but you knew the real tragedy was the home that had become a war zone. You spent years as a professional mood reader, tracking the weather of a walking hurricane and acting as a human buffer so the storm wouldn't hit your children.
You aren't "difficult." You aren't "bitter." You are a Sentry.
Written for the mothers brave enough to flip the script, The Sentry is a roadmap for the extraction; the journey from the suffocating fog of a narcissistic relationship to the quiet, light filled peace of a healed home. A survival manual written by someone who has seen the war from both the front lines and the trenches; a child survival partner and as a mum who had to learn to leave for her child.
Your children don't need a whole home; they need a whole mother. Stop managing the hurricane and start building the meadow. The watch is over. It's time to come home to a house that is finally, mercifully, quiet.