Her grandmother looked at her knowingly and told her that it was because she wanted to leave. “You mean abandoning your family?” » asked the granddaughter, and in turn the answer was yes. She had wanted to leave and never come back. Of course, it was very shocking, this secret kept for so many years. The grandmother she had known and loved for so long had actually wanted to abandon her family and leave forever. She was young and pretty, full of her own dreams and aspirations, and found herself with four children and a husband. Feeling stuck and restless in a family where she was constantly expected to do more, she probably felt overwhelmed. So the granddaughter defied him, left her husband and children and fled to New York. “I had already left him once,” his grandmother explained, “but he found me. I came home, but on the condition that he never follows me again. I told him that Next time I won't come back." At this point, things started to fall into place when her grandmother revealed her secret, hidden for so long. Her move to New York was actually her own husband's idea. He knew that the illness in his heart was not physical. He gave her money and made all the necessary arrangements for her to leave without worrying about anything. All she had to do was leave, with no obligations. That year, her grandmother explained, she lived. Really lived. The question the granddaughter then asked was what made her come back. The answer brings tears to her eyes as her grandmother explains that it was because she loved her husband and missed her children, and that she discovered a new appreciation for the sacrifice that her grandfather had done to give his wife a whole year of total freedom, without ever knowing if she would return. Then she whispers softly to her granddaughter: “and over time, the husband