I Dropped My Marriage Off At A Consignment Shop

That’s How It Felt

Victoria Ponte
The Narrative
Published in
4 min readSep 17, 2021

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Photo of the author: ca 1986

It was a slow painful death. My marriage that started as most do with love and happiness when we were young was scratched and dented along the way. But it wasn’t the tiny chips that did us in. It was a catastrophic health event 13 years into it.

Our son was not quite two years old when at 35 I suffered a severe stroke during…

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Victoria Ponte
The Narrative

Writing to share wonder, gratitude and a sense of humor. Poetry, life lessons, survivor. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/victoriaponte