Three Years of Farewells

I am the airline’s "Employee of the Year," an award-winning flight attendant celebrated for navigating every mid-air crisis with grace. But while I spend my days ensuring thousands of strangers reach their destinations safely, my own life has been stuck on the tarmac for eight years. I have mastered the art of professional stability, yet I’ve allowed my pilot husband to stand me up at the marriage registry seventeen times while he prioritizes a trainee mistress. I can guide a plane through any storm at thirty thousand feet, but I’ve spent a decade serving a man who treats me like a backup flight—until I realized that for my life to finally take off, I had to let him crash alone.