After Ten Years of Marriage I Asked for a Fair Split Because It Still Matters

I checked the children’s bags.

Routine persists even when love has retreated. There is something almost comforting about that, or perhaps something sad. I have not decided which.

Daniel came to the kitchen in the clothes he had laid out the night before — the sharper suit, the tie I had given him for his birthday four years ago, the shoes he polished continue reading …