Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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157 Going Deep (Winona)

Barnaby pauses, then leans forward slightly. "Jayden, you mentioned anger. Can you tell me more about that? What is it that makes you angry?"

Jayden's words come out, slow and measured. "I'm angry because I feel like I've been lied to,

manipulated. I feel like I've lost control of my own life, and I don't know how to get it back. I don't know if I ever had it."

Dr. Greyson turns to me. "Winona, what about you? What are you feeling?"

I hesitate, not wanting to say too much, not wanting to open the floodgates. But I know I have to, if this is going to work. I'm scared," I admit.

I look at Jayden and then back at Barnaby. "I'm scared that no matter what we do, it's not going to be enough. Maybe we were way too broken before we even started."

The room falls silent again. I can feel Jayden's eyes on me, but I don't look back at him.

"It's clear that you both have a lot of pain and fear that you're carrying. But the fact that you're here, that you're willing to talk about it, is a good sign."

He pauses, then continues, his tone firm but gentle. "This is going to be a long process. Healing from the kind of trauma you've both experienced doesn't happen overnight. But if you're willing to put in the work.... you never know." I take a deep breath, trying to let his words sink in. Can we really do this, or are we just delaying the inevitable?

Jayden reaches out, his hand hovering over mine for a moment before he takes it, his grip firm but gentle. "I want to give this everything I have," he says, and I can hear the determination in his voice. "I will work hard for this."

I look at him, and for the first time in a long time, I see something in his eyes that gives me hope.

"I'll work hard for us too. For Abby, our daughter."

"No." Barnaby says in a firm tone. "Not for your daughter, not for Jayden, for you.

I look at him. "Of course, for me too."

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this for anyone else but yourself. You both have to work out if this is what your both truly want for yourselves. Until you do that, this will always fail." Barnaby's tone and expression brook no argument. I nod. "It is what I

why you're both here.

Winona. I do know that

know jack shit."

shift.

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out. "Did you feel the shift

"I guess."

said, and your mood changed. Then Winona began to hesitate and retreat.

"I wasn't getting angry,"

You need to learn to read the room. Life isn't a business deal that you

do have trouble with people telling me

a space where we let it all hang out. A place where you both can say exactly what's

like that. I'd like to express my truth. To be heard without it being taken as

like to be heard too. No one listens to me. I just get told what I should feel or think. Then when go against

you are always ranting and raving

side. You don't get how hard this all is

I get it, Jayden. But it's hard for me too. I just can't brush things away the next day as if

to brush them away; I just don't want to argue

conversation with you. You

things? I'm pretty sure you said I've made your

face. "We can't even come to therapy and not

that's it then." Barnaby says and rests his hands behind his head, elbows out.

"What? We're not leaving yet. I could've argued

if you both insist on continuing to argue, just stay