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.

so rotten. I wanted to believe her, wanted to think I was not abandoning a wounded woman but rescuing myself from a life I never consented to, and that is how self-deception works—it gives selfishness a cleaner haircut and sends it out into the world calling itself truth.

On the tenth day, I came home because even cowards eventually run out of places continue reading …