Reclaim Me

Loving someone with demons is hard but leaving them is harder. That's a lesson I learned roughly a decade ago when I left the love of my life. Choosing the child we made but weren't ready for over any hope for what could be. Trading in potential for reality, my dreams for motherhood and the warmth of his embrace for a lonely world.

Despite how tragic it sounds, everything turned out okay. I made peace with my decisions … until now. Now, I'm back in New Haven and nothing is the way it shou...