She had a hard time admitting it to herself, because nobody wants to admit the agonizing reality that they are not loved—but she was not loved by him—at least not in the way she needed to be.

They took family trips to Disney World. She yearned for a home built on and centered around nothing more and nothing less…than Love… And although she tried her hardest, Eddie was no longer in that vision. She had a hard time admitting it to herself, because nobody wants to admit the agonizing reality that they are not loved—but she was not loved by him—at least not in the way she needed to be. “Not this fucking time!” Kailani told herself. She’d been silenced for the last time, and this mother-fucking merry-go-round ritual of getting nowhere in their arguments was finished. She was gone in her mind.