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.

been powerful. The excitement, the passion, the escape—everything had felt so easy with her. But what I had forgotten, what I had failed to see in the haze of it all, was that she had never truly cared for me. Not like Hannah had. Not like the woman who had chosen to stay when everything had fallen apart.

I couldn’t go back to that life. I couldn’t continue reading …