You know, like you are also serving time, but on the outside. The heavy weight of living with your husband in prison pressing in on you from all sides? I know exactly what that feels like. It is a prison without physical walls, but with physical impact.

Living in an emotional or mental prison is tough. This kind of prison has no obvious out date or sentence expiration. It is an unending sentence that traps its victims. It is so hard to explain to someone who has never gone through having their husband locked up. Part of you goes with him, and the part that is left out here is overwhelmed and overlooked. We are bombarded with all types of hardship, while being discarded socially at the same time. This is the most difficult season you will face.