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.

the chest. It was the harshest thing she had said, but it was also the truest. I had failed her in every way, and now it was too late. The person I had been—strong, dependable, loving—was gone. What was left in front of me was a man who had lost his way and didn’t know how to find his way back.

We stayed silent, the space between us filled with everything continue reading …