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Permission to be Powerful

🩸A Year Through Hell

Let's do a Live Autopsy on a Bad Relationship

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Tony V.
May 12, 2025
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EDITOR’S NOTE:

I wrote this in 2022, when I was getting divorced.
I filed it away.
I didn’t want to be bitter.

Three years later, I don’t see bitterness.
You tell me.

I thought marriage would be a passport to a bigger life.

Instead, I got five years in solitary confinement.

I was her everything—
Her chauffeur.
Her scapegoat.
Her emotional punching bag.

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