I thought the only way things could get better was to leave. I was tired. Disconnected. Convinced we just weren’t good for each other anymore. But I wasn’t running from the marriage. I was running from what it was revealing in me. My defensiveness. My unrealistic expectations. My critical tone. The way I shut down when I didn’t feel seen. Facing myself was hard. But it was the turning point. Because it’s not the marriage that’s broken…It’s the behaviours we bring into it. And when I stopped tryi