The kids and I went to meet her. Jon, giving in, arrived to meet her, too. But it was with the resignation of a man on death row. He had seen this movie before. He knew how it ended. We went home afterward to discuss it. This was the most performative part of our marriage. Rarely did we “discuss” anything. I presented my argument, the counter arguments, and then I came to a conclusion that was obviously in alignment with what I had wanted all along. He usually sat there and listened, sometimes sighing. This was just how it had unfolded over all these years, me in a relationship more or less
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