Reflections on Identity

Why Wasn’t I Enough?

The elusive question of enoughness in a marriage, and who gets to decide

Photo by manu schwendener on Unsplash

Four years after the demise of my decades-long marriage, I struggle to put this question to bed: why wasn’t I enough?

It had not occurred to me while I was in it that it might end — truly, never. It wasn’t just that I…