Jess used to believe marriage was about balance — give and take, understanding, compromise. She repeated those words during her vows, and clung to them through the hard years when exhaustion became routine. But somewhere along the way, that balance disappeared. Or maybe, Jess realized, Jason never truly understood it in the first place. Six years into their marriage, Jess was running herself into the ground. She worked grueling 12-hour shifts at the hospital, helping patients through emergencies and grief, only to return home to another kind of shift — cooking, cleaning, managing three children, including an infant who still...
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