His Social Anxiety Vanished the Day His First Love Came Back
My husband Marcus Ashford has severe social anxiety.
In three years of marriage, he refused to meet a single one of my friends or family.
Even our wedding was just the two of us, because he said a crowd would trigger a panic attack.
Because it hurt me to see him like that, I put up with my parents' disappointment and my friends' confusion, made every excuse for him, and guarded his fragile little world with both hands.
That changed tonight, when I stumbled onto the social media page of his first love, newly returned from overseas.
In the photos, Marcus moved through the room with Chloe, working the toasts with total ease, laughing wide and unguarded.
I opened the next live photo, and a snatc