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Still Trying
Paperback
Series: Almost, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.06 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Michael Walker did everything right.
He showed up. He provided. He tried harder when things went quiet and stayed patient when intimacy turned into routine. He believed effort could fix what love stopped reaching for.
But marriages don't always end with betrayal.
Sometimes they end with silence.
As years pass and distance grows, Michael finds himself living inside a relationship that still functions - but no longer feels chosen. He doesn't cheat. He doesn't leave. Instead, he waits. He works. He tells himself this is normal.
Until being noticed - quietly, unexpectedly - reminds him of the parts of himself he's been slowly setting aside.
Still Trying is an intimate, restrained look at marriage, loneliness, and the dangerous hope that patience might be enough. Told from a deeply human male perspective, it explores the space between loyalty and longing, effort and erasure, and what happens when staying becomes its own kind of loss.
This is not a story about infidelity.
It's a story about almost being loved.
And what it costs to keep trying anyway.
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