It’s been just the two of us for so many years. People don’t talk much about marriages without children, about the intensity of them. No one else in the house to act as a buffer, to force you to come together after an argument. There was a time when it seemed everyone I knew was having children, and then I lost them all to that life. It’s not for the faint-hearted, parenting. Years and years of care and attention. And there was Arthur and me, still just us. Always just us.
