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.

cars, telling my wife I missed her with another woman’s perfume still on my skin.

Then the weekend stretched. Christina said we could stay one more day, and then another. My phone filled with Hannah’s missed calls, then voicemails, then messages that grew shorter and more frightened, and instead of answering like a husband, I did what cowards do best—I continue reading …