I didn’t know. I realized she was a volunteer coordinator at a charitable organization that supports parents who lose newborns.
She said my ex-husband had been coming every Saturday, since before I’d even asked for the divorce, to sit with fathers who didn’t know how to cry in front of their wives. She said he once told the group that the hardest thing he’d ever done was to hold it together so I wouldn’t feel alone in falling apart. He thought if we both broke at the same time, neither of us