After three years of working away from home, my husband came back with a strange new habit: every night, he wrapped his arms around my waist from behind, something he had never done before.
“If you pretend you don’t know anything, you can keep being my wife.” Christopher said it in the dark. Calmly. Almost lazily. As if he were offering me a favor. I lay still beside him.… After three years of working away from home, my husband came back with a strange new habit: every night, he wrapped his arms around my waist from behind, something he had never done before.









