~DANIELLE

I didn't prepare myself for this type of hurt.

I thought giving up on the love of my life was going to be easy.

I thought throwing away what I thought would be mine forever would be easy, but I was wrong.

It was harder than I could imagine. Way harder than my body could take.

I finished packing my things but I couldn't bring myself to carry it, nor move ahead to tell Ried of my decision.

It had been easy to tell the boys. It was easy to be the strong person in front of them, but ...