I STAYED ( Ebook )

Everyone asks why you didn't leave.
For me the question was whether I could stay.

I had everything. My own business, money in the bank, people on the payroll, and a house with a key that belonged to nobody but me. I was the woman everyone assumed this could never happen to.

And then he walked in with flowers, on an ordinary Tuesday, just because he could.

Nobody had ever given me flowers. And in that same minute I thought: what does he want.

This book is about the eight years that followed. About a man who kept trying, with notes in my bag and a house full of candles, and about a woman who panics at a surprise. About nights spent holding his phone. About a ring that came three times and went back twice.

And about my family, who leave when it gets hard.

I am the first one who didn't.

Nobody ever told me that staying is also something you can do well or badly.