Regardless, the purpose of this article wasn’t to justify my decision or to get feedback on how to live a happy and purpose-filled life. The recipe for happiness that works for you may not do it for me and vice versa — the relationship advice feels a bit irrelevant.

The purpose was two-fold:

1. I left my husband over a year ago and just recently started writing about it. When I did, a lot of people (men and women) reached out looking for companionship because they, too, were going through the same thing. This article wasn’t for you, it was for people looking for someone to relate to, just as I was when I first went through this.
2. To highlight how society impacts our ability to live authentic lives and how it makes us question our very real truths.

Oh, and the name? I wasn’t trying to write a piece to make sure middle-aged white men approved of my relationship choices, I chose it to highlight the cultural differences in women leaving good men vs. men leaving good women.