After 12 years together, my husband left me for a younger woman, telling me I had remained a \u201cnobody\u201d while he climbed the ladder and needed a better partner. Four months later, he became seriously ill, his new girlfriend abandoned him, and I chose to take him in because I was all he had left. After he died, his former girlfriend appeared at the funeral with a shoebox containing a secret journal he had written during our separation, filled with regret and confessions that leaving me was the biggest mistake of his life and that I had always been the love of his life. She admitted she had found the journal, realized she meant little to him, and had planned to destroy it before deciding to give it to me after his death. I then learned that my husband had left everything to me, insisting that I alone deserved it. I was heartbroken over the four months we had lost, but grateful that I had cared for him in his final days, because otherwise I might have carried the regret of abandoning him forever.READ MORE BELOW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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