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.

to speak, but it didn’t matter. I didn’t need to say anything. I knew what this meant: that I had been given the most fragile gift in the world—an opportunity to make things right. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to earn it.

That day, I drove back home alone. I couldn’t bring myself to go back to Christina, to the life I had foolishly started continue reading …