Jennifer Gardiner Poems

hy didn't you just leave? ' That is the question that everyone asks. I don't think you can really know until you are in that person's shoes. For me, I was in love. If I needed to suffer to be with my soul mate, so be it. Love is meant to hurt, right?

I was divorced and had two children from my first marriage when I met him. He had been married twice before. We moved quickly, and within six months we were living together. One night he went out with some friends and didn't come home. The next morning, when he finally walked in the door, I angrily asked him where he spent the night. He didn't even answer me — he just hit me in the face.
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