No Right Answer

It feels wrong to think that he's better off without her, but those are her words, not mine. I may have thought them, but she said them out loud.

Sad truth is, he will always have belonged to her first, but maybe he is better off without her. I'm the one picking up the pieces, doing the work, cleaning up the messes. I'm the one who considers what's best for him, makes his well-being a priority.

And yet, I encourage that relationship. Is that the right thing to do? If all she's going to do is hurt him repeatedly, shouldn't I try to protect him? But maybe that's not my call to make, because she did have him first.

So I choose to be the one who stays, because she's not coming back. I make the healthiest home I can for my him, because his first mother doesn't have one to give him.

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