One year after my divorce, I ran into my ex-husband in the pediatric wing of the hospital where I worked

She is still a nurse. She is on nights at a different trust now.

People have asked me why and I have given four different answers, and the true one is this: I was not doing it for her.

There is a two-year-old in that family, and a nurse’s income, and I had a choice about whether that boy grew up in a house with one wage or none — and I had the only piece of paper that made a difference, and I was not prepared to be the person