100 Coins Before I Left My Husband

Synopsis

Every time my husband broke a promise, I dropped a coin into a glass jar. He promised to celebrate my birthday with me. Instead, he blew out candles with his first love and their secret son. He promised to take me on the honeymoon I had waited years for. Instead, he canceled our flight to play happy family at the boy's kindergarten. Then I lay bleeding on our living room floor and begged him to come home. "Call an ambulance yourself," he said. "My son needs me." The final coin slipped from my fingers. One hundred coins. One hundred broken promises. By the time my husband came home, the jar was full.