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What happens when the marriage you prayed for becomes the place where you feel unseen, unheard, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from the woman you once were? For many women, marriage can become more than a relationship—it can become an identity. Somewhere between trying to be a good wife, keeping the peace, praying for change, forgiving again, and holding the family together, you may look up one day and wonder: What happened to me? You can love God, honor marriage, and still admit that your marriage has wounded you.

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend...

Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. In the foreword to this second collection, published in 1891, Mabel Loomis Todd wrote: “The eagerness with...