Leaving My Marriage Was a Death My Body Remembers

Will it ever forget?

kasey sparks
The Memoirist
Published in
5 min readOct 9, 2022

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“When did you first think about leaving Dad?”

My son asked me this question as we sat around the kitchen table in my new apartment. I’d moved out a few weeks before this conversation took place.

“To be honest? Fifteen years ago.”

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kasey sparks
The Memoirist

making mistakes · gathering lessons · sparking curiosity · finding meaning & magical moments in the midst of my messy life · wrangling words since 2017