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.

like the world was just too heavy for her to carry, when the weight of it all would bear down on her so hard that she couldn’t find the strength to get out of bed. On those days, I held her, whispered in her ear that we were in this together, and that it didn’t matter how long it took—we would rebuild, piece by piece.

But even as the physical progress continue reading …