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She Said Family Mattered

The gap between what she said and what she chose built her entire life

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Scott D. Clary
Nov 18, 2025
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Sarah’s husband filed for divorce on their twentieth anniversary.

For two decades, she’d told everyone the marriage was her top priority. She meant it. Believed it.

Her calendar told a different story. Eighty-hour work weeks. Business trips every month. Emails during dinner. Laptop open during every conversation.

When he said he was done, she said: “Everything I did was for us.”

He said: “You spent twenty years saying the marriage mattered while proving it didn’t.”

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