All week I've been reading posts about the hardest of the hard stuff here. Women who face forfeiting financial security for themselves and for their children, lose health benefits and homes if they leave their marriages. Women who much decide: Is it more damaging to the kids to go, or to stay?

I don't envy any of us.

Sometimes I'm over opinionated, weigh in where I don't understand, in the way we can never understand the nuances and complexities of other people's situations. Breaking points or the circumstances that lead a woman to stay, or to go.

Today, I don't have anything to say. Not about my life, nor anyone else's.

Just empathy for the suffering.

May everyone reach greater peace, no matter how that looks.