My name is Kristin Palm Kane. I am a certified coach, a Fora Advanced travel advisor, a memoirist, and a woman who spent a long time playing the supporting character in her own life. This is the part of the story most websites would polish. I am going to tell it the way it actually went.

For most of my marriage, I confused selflessness with self-erasure. I made a thousand small choices in service of a partnership I thought we were both in. By the time I was fifty, I had two teenage boys, a house, a calendar full of other people's needs, and the quiet, persistent feeling that I was watching my own life from somewhere behind my own eyes.