A Question About Safety

I once had to leave my home to survive.

I am not an agency or organization.

For years, I’ve thought about why the danger so often stays—and the woman goes. Leaving is called brave. It is also destabilizing. Children change schools. Finances fracture. Community shifts. The woman becomes the one who moved, who disrupted, who “blew up” the family.

I keep returning to a simple question:

What if safety did not require exile?