“I know. And I should have told you how overwhelmed I was. I thought I had to handle everything myself. “
He kissed my forehead. “Next time, let me carry this with you. “
“Next time, tell me the truth”
All right. “
All right. “
There is one last thing that remains etched in my memory — something that Molly said during our second session.
She looked at us both and said, Your daughter drew a fourth person in your family, not because someone was taking your place, but because she thought she had more room in her heart. Children don’t compartmentalize like we do. They make room. “
This touched me a lot.
This touched me a lot.
Because I spent days imagining a betrayal, imagining another woman.
Sometimes when we’re walking around the park with our matching mittens, Ruby rocking between us, I look at Dan and think about how almost we broke up.
Not because of infidelity. But silence.
Not because of infidelity. But silence.
