The Guilty Husband

by Stephanie DeCarolis

When the suffering isn’t ours to carry, we wash it off hastily and unceremoniously and, if we’re being honest, quietly think to ourselves that we’re glad to be rid of it and the mild discomfort we fleetingly felt as a result of its proximity to our lives.

Social media has let us design how we want the world to see us, while conveniently cropping out all of the unsightly messes that make up a real life.

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