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

what it undid.

He said it the way you’d ask for the salt.

I was placing dinner on the table — lamb chops with the rosemary he preferred, roasted vegetables, a glass of wine already poured at his setting. He was looking at his phone, the way he always looked at his phone now: with a specific kind of attentiveness that was not the scrolling distraction continue reading …