“This home is truly yours too, because I finally learned that sharing starts with asking for permission.”

Maya looked at her husband and wished she could tell her mother that she had finally found her strength. She realized that a mansion can be worth millions, but a woman who chooses herself is worth much more.

Love without respect is just a form of slow dispossession. No house, no matter how luxurious, can ever be a home if a woman has to stop belonging to herself to keep it.