The WOMAN AFTER “I DO: Back Burner Bride

To the Woman I Almost Forgot This one is for her. Not only the wife. Not only the mother. Not only the caregiver. Not only the woman who remembers everybody's appointments, birthdays, medications, schedules, favorite foods, problems, and needs. This book belongs to the woman underneath all of those titles. The woman who had dreams before everybody needed her. The woman who laughed before exhaustion became her personality. The woman who once got dressed because she wanted to feel beautiful. The woman who had friends. Ideas. Plans. Desires. A future she imagined for herself. She didn't disappear. She got buried underneath responsibility. And now- we're coming back for her. Not because she needs to become the woman she used to be. That woman could never know everything this woman survived. We are coming back to meet the woman she has become. Wiser. Stronger. Softer where she chooses to be. Firmer where she needs to be. No longer apologizing for needing. No longer embarrassed by wanting. No longer waiting for someone else to choose her. To the woman after "I do" Your story did not end at the altar.