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Should I Leave My Husband? The Lure of Divorce

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the summer of 2022, I lost my mind. At first, it seemed I was simply overwhelmed because life had become very difficult, and I needed to — had every right to — blow off some steam. Our family was losing its apartment and had to find another one, fast, in a rental market gone so wild that people were offering over the asking price on rent. My husband, Keith, was preparing to publish a book, Raising Raffi, about our son, a book he’d written with my support and permission but that, as publication loomed, I began to have mixed feelings about. To cope with the stress, I asked my psychiatrist to increase the dosage of the antidepressant I’d been on for years. Sometime around then, I started talking too fast and drinking a lot. I felt invincibly alive, powerful, and self-assured, troubled only by impatience with how slowly everyone around me was moving and thinking. D

Photo-Illustration: Erin Jang This content can't be displayed right now. To view this embed, please accept targeting cookies. It's loaded from a third party and requires that permission to appear. Manage cookie preferences This story was originally published in the February 12, 2024, issue of New York Magazine. It was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In the summer of 2022, I lost my mind. At first, it seemed I was simply overwhelmed because life had become very difficult, and I needed to — had every right to — blow off

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