The Hard Years, and the Lessons They Taught Us

Chapter 8 of The Woods Behind Me

Love doesn’t stay soft and glowing forever. Anyone who says it does is either lying or hasn’t survived the first real stress test of adulthood.

Andrew and I didn’t drift into the hard years — we collided with them. Two young parents trying to build a life, three kids already watching every move we made, bills piling faster than paychecks, cars breaking at the exact wrong time, jobs demanding more than either of us had to give, and two adults carrying childhoods heavier than we wanted to admit.

We loved each other. But loving each other didn’t make life easy. It just made it survivable.

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