They expect that I will feel she took him away and that's where it comes from.

But that isn't it at all. I never learnt to tell them this. He got bored with making the effort for us, her life was easier. That's where it began. That's where the threat is. It's so much easier and interesting. That freedom of no responsibility. They still have that.

It's a man's life. Everything fits round so snugly. And if it doesn't, a woman must adapt.

The way it has always been and will be.

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