How do I leave if divorce is shameful?
My husband, Misha, hasn’t touched me in over a year. Not angry, not fighting — just… gone. Like I’m furniture. He says I work too much, that I’m not the ‘soft woman’ he married. But I had to work. His job in construction, the money is never enough. In our culture, a man should provide, but when he can’t, no one says it out loud. Just this quiet resentment builds. My parents? They’d rather see me suffer than divorced. My aunt tried to leave her husband — people still whisper about her like she’s broken something sacred. ‘Family is forever,’ they say. But I’m so lonely. Sometimes I stand in the kitchen at night and just cry into a dish towel so the neighbors don’t hear. I found his birth date online — he’s a Taurus, I’m a Scorpio. I read somewhere we’re supposed to be compatible. But what if it’s not the stars? What if it’s just… us? Or me? I don’t even know anymore. I keep thinking, maybe I’m the problem. But then I remember how I used to laugh more. Before. 💔