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.

I received an unexpected message from an old friend, Mark, asking if I could meet him for coffee. Mark and I hadn’t spoken in years, but he was someone I trusted deeply, someone who had been there during some of the hardest times in my life. I agreed to meet him, wondering why he’d reached out after all this time.

When we sat down at the coffee shop,continue reading …