When Staying Hurts: The Cost of Holding on Too Long is a powerful, soul-stirring story by Jacqueline Moss that follows the life of a young woman shaped by the absence of a father and the silent sacrifices of a mother who carried more than her share.

What begins as a child's longing for love and stability unfolds into a deeply personal journey of endurance, heartbreak, and awakening. Determined to give her children the life she never had, she clings to the hope that keeping a two-parent household intact would make everything whole. But instead, she builds a life held together by fear, sacrifice, and the misplaced belief that love can fix what is broken.

As she navigates abuse, emotional exhaustion, betrayal, and the slow unraveling of everything she believed, she's faced with one life-altering question: Is staying worth losing yourself?

This book is more than a memoir-it's a mirror. A reflection of what so many women endure quietly. It's a story about breaking cycles, healing from within, and learning that sometimes, the bravest thing you'll ever do is walk away.

When Staying Hurts: The Cost of Holding on Too Long is a story of purpose rising from pain, of lessons born from love, and the woman who discovered that the absence didn't break her-it built her.