This house was our dream. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/95472f/620x0/1/0/2025/04/16/ap93f6z1dgusovhi8smwvj42lflcqce1cvm8yk.jpg" alt = "woman @pexels" Style = "background-color: rgba (71.53.42.1)" > < p > brick after brick, year after year & ndash; We built it together. I wore a bucket with mortar, he was arranging a roof. There was no money for construction teams & ndash; Only our hands, sweat, fatigue and love. We laughed that it would be our fortress. Our children were to grow up here, we were to grow old here.

< p > and it was so for years. Holidays at the fireplace. Lunches in the kitchen, which I designed myself. Pok & icute; j children, wiped noses and fever compressed. They were not just the walls. It was my story.

< p > and then & hellip; It started to move away. First silence at the table. Then get more and more about the recesses. Then the phone, which was always a screen in D & Amp; Oacute; ł. Until he finally sat in front of me and said:

< p > & ndash; It's over. I don't love you anymore. I fell in love with someone else. I move out.

< P >My world collapsed, but not a house & ndash; Not yet. Because I thought that at least he & ndash; The house, which we built together & ndash; will still be m & oacute; j.

< p > It was not.

< p > I agreed to the divorce of & oacute; d not to pull this passion. I assumed that a man cannot be stopped. But I did not foresee one thing: that I would lose everything that I was able to lose with paper and signature.

< p > The house was rewritten for it — It was more convenient, we agreed a long time ago. & AMP; BDQUO; It doesn't matter, we are married & rdquo; & ndash; M & oacute; We were.

< p > A few months after the divorce wr & oacute; I had my own things. The door opened.

< p > smiling, fragrant with perfumes, in my former bathrobe.

< p > & ndash; Good morning & ndash; I said calmly. & ndash; I came to take a few things from the room on the g & oacute; river

< p > looked at me with superiority, which had the face of victory. < br /> & amp. Please don't be angry, but & Hellip; This is not your place anymore. This house is our life now. We don't want anyone from the past to come back here.

< p > I didn't shout. I didn't cry. I stood on the porch where my geraniums once grew, and I just whispered in my mind: < br /> & ampquo; This is my place. My stairs. My windows. My tears in this mortar. & Amp;

< p > but the place is not only land and walls. It's a memory. A memory & Hellip; stays with me.

< p > and although today I rent a small apartment in a block of flats, although I look through the window at a completely different landscape – I have a home in me. True. The one that I built not only of bricks, but from my heart. ~ 60 > < p > A They ? may have walls. But they will not build what I carry.

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116