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.

vulnerability I had seen in her that night when she had said, “I don’t need a hero.”

For the first time in months, we were on the same level again. Not as patient and caregiver, not as husband and wife with a debt to pay, but as two people who had survived something impossible together.

And then, just as I thought we had reached some kind of peace, the continue reading …