My wife is paralyzed, so I haven’t been inti:mate with her for four months. Out of deep frustration, I left her alone for ten days to go on a date with the younger sister of my colleague. And then… the unexpected happened.

was a crisis, that I couldn’t breathe if every hour of my life had to be accounted for. The hurt on her face arrived slowly, like dawn over a disaster, and I hated myself so much that I became colder just to survive the moment.

She turned away and wiped her cheeks with the back of her hand. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, and those two words should have continue reading …