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.

both visible and invisible, were still there, but we were learning how to navigate around them, how to acknowledge them without letting them define us.

Hannah’s recovery was slow, painstaking. There were days when she made huge strides, her muscles responding to the therapy in ways the doctors hadn’t expected. And then there were days when it seemed continue reading …