Grace had thought that the worst thing about Alex was that he was boring. He didn’t hit her, didn’t call her names, didn’t scream at her. He wasn’t cruel. And yet, being with him had exhausted her. It took her so long to leave him, not because she was afraid, but because it was so hard to muster the energy. There was no clean, decisive reason to give him. There was no final straw, no glaring fault. She was just tired—of him, of herself, of everything. The longer they stayed together, the harder it was to disengage from him. Whenever she expressed discontent—Alex, can’t we do something besides
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